Intro

• Weimar Germany dates 


  1918-1933
• German Reich 


  1871-1918
• Who was the first Kaiser?


  Wilhelm I
• When did Kaiser Wilhelm I rule?

  1871-1888
• Who was the second kaiser?

  Fredrick (1888)
• When did Kaiser Wilhelm II rule?

  1888-1918
• When was the Holy Roman Empire

  962-1806
• How did Germany become unified in 1871?

  Prussia won wars against France, Denmark and Austria
• Reichstag 


  The elected lower house of the German parliament
• What was the reichstag elected by?

  Universal male suffrage
• What is the SPD

  Social Democratic Party
• In what year did he SPD become the single largest party in the reichstag?

  1912
• Until what year did German war efforts remain high and why did it stop?

  Winter of 1916-1917, severe food shortages and rising food prices
• Who did Kaiser Wilhelm II give more political power to?

  Ludendorff and Hindenburg
• When did the USA join WW1

  1917
• When did Wilhelm II resign

  10th November 1918
• Which was the largest German state ?

  Prussia
• What percent of German territory was in Prussia?

  60%
• What percent of the German population was in Prussia?

  50%