Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Problems Germany Faced 1919-1924
- Surrender in World War 1
- Caused National Humiliation
- Many Germans saw their new government as
traitors and cowards
- Economy almost destroyed by
demands of War
- Few jobs for returning soilders
- Germans were starving, cold and
disease ridden
- Allies continued their
blockade until summer of
1919
- 1919 - Treaty of Versallies
- Seen as an insult to German Pride
- Reparations and loss of
land further damaged the
economy.
- Many Germans turned
against their Goverment
- Political Extremists
active against new
Government
- Communists try to take
over Berlin and bloodily
suppressed by Freikorps
- 1920: Kapp Putsch
/ 1923: Beer Hall
Putsch
- 1923
- French invasion of the Ruhr
- Hyperinflation