History Germany

• The Weimar Republic was established on August 11, 1919.
• what year did Germany united ?

  1871
• what year did Kaiser wilhelm II become Kaiser ?

  1888
• in 1913 Germany had the same amount of raw materials as—


  Britain
• Why were working class unhappy with industrialisation

  wages low, working conditions were poor
• as a result of their unhappiness, working class people voted for what political party?

  Social democratic party
• The social democratic party were a _________ party

  Communist
• Kaisers idea of world domination was called

  Weltpolitik
• In what year did World War begin ?

  1914
• When did WW1 end ?

  1918
• Which countries made up the triple entente ?

  Russia, France, United Kingdom
• Which countries made up the triple alliance ?

  Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
• what happened outside the German parliament buildings in 1915 ?

  500 Women protesting demanding their men back
• 1916 ten thousand workers assembled in berlin and shouted …


  Down with war, down with the government !
• German people short of food so what did they survive off of ?

  Rations of turnips and bread
• what did General Ludendorff say in 1918 ?


  told german politicains they could never win the war
• who took over the Kaisers position temporarily as he abdicated?

  Friedrich Ebert leader of the social democratic party
• who was Freidrich Ebert ?

  leader of SDP
• what was Eberys first action ?


  sign the armistice
• Ebert declared that Germany would be what ?

  a democratic republic
• the spartacus league was a left wing communist political party
• ex soldiers were know as free corps
• 1919 Ebert elected as new German president
• communists believed that everyone was equal and there were no classes
• Rich Germans feared being killed by communists
• Another Communist uprising in Bavaria in 1919 and in the Ruhe in march 1920