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History - Germany Depth Study
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Mind Map on History - Germany Depth Study, created by Emma Blackburn on 29/11/2014.
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History - Germany Depth Study
Germany's Defeat and Revolution
Low Morale
1918 - Food Shortage (Semi-Starvation)
1918 - Coal, Gas and Electricity Shortage
Cold and Dark Country
Boredom set in
Summer of 1918 - Spanish Influenza
Weak from years of hunger
Death Toll
400,000 German Civillians
186,000 German Soldiers
Revolution
Allie's wouldn't make peace with Germany until democratic government
28th October 1918
German Navy chiefs ordered Kid Port warships to be put to sea for battle
2 ships worth of sailors refused, this was mutiny
600 Arrests
Mutiny spread to workers and they took over Kiel
Revolution spread to all over Germany
Socialist's took over
Germany became a republic
Abducation
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Forced to abducate
10th November 1918 - Fled to Holland
New Democratic Weimar Republic
'Weimar' - town in which the government hid during the 1919 Berlin violence
First President - Friedrich Ebert (social democratic party)
Article 48
In times of emergency, the president could rule by degree without consulting the Reichstag
No specification of an emergency so led to dictators
Proportional Representation
Votes for each party were turned into a percentage of seats
A party could only rule if the party got 50% of votes
Coalitions occurred and this caused problems and disagreements
Signing of the Treaty of Versailles
"Stab in the back" Theory
The treaty was very harsh and took money, land and army from the Germans
The public felt the government had betrayed them and "stabbed them in the back"
Opposition to the Weimar Republic
Inside the Reichstag
KPD (Communist)
Supported by the working class
Policies
Against the republic
In favour of a workers revolution
DNVP (Nationalist)
Supported by Middle and Upper Class
Policies
Against the republic
Strongly nationalist
Strong central government
NSDAP (Nazi)
Supported by Nationalists and Conservatives
Policies
Against the republic
Strong government
Outside the Reichstag
Spartacists
Rosa Luxemburg
Karl Liebknect
Started a communist revolution on 6th January 1919
The free corps destroyed the Spartacists and arrested, then killed, both their leaders
Free Corps/ Kapp Putsch
Ex-Soldiers
Wolfgang Kapp
Supported Ebert to fight off the Spartacists
They turned on Ebert and took control of Berlin but for only 100 hours, as all workers went on strike
Wolfgang Kapp fled to Sweden
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