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GERMANY AFTER THE WW1
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Germany after the First World War
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germany
hyperinflation
social economic and political problems
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GERMANY AFTER THE WW1
Was practicaly in bankrupt
Income reduced in conection to 1913
Industrial prodction decreased
Soldier's death left too many orphans and widows
Started a notable discord in society
Rich & poor
Industrious women & People who thought "tradition of family" was broken up
Workers who won little money during the war & Factories' owners who made fortunes
Unstable democratic republic
Stresses ended up in a revolution in 1918
Ex-soldiers and civilians took Field Marshal Hindenburg as the real hero
Auttum 1918, The Allies won the war
Offered Germany peace under some conditions
The Kiser refused
November 1918, the Kiser abdicated his throne
Frederich Ebert became the new leader of the Republic of Germany
He signed armistice with the Allies
Gave germans freedom of speech, freedom of worship and better working conditions
People was supposed to accept a change in the tradition
They didn't
Erbert had opposition form both sides
Right
Ex-advisers remained in their postions in army, industri, civil service
Limited what the new goverment could do
Said Erbert had betrayed Germany and caused the defeat
People who liked the Kaiser's dictational style of goverment
Kapp Putsch
German people, mainly industrial workers set up strikes
The rebellion realised it could not succed and left the country
Left
Comunists who thought they needed a Communist revolution just like Russia in 1917
SPARTACISTS
Wanted a Germany ruled by workers' counsils or soviets
Joined rebel soldiers and sailors who set up soviets in many towns
Revolution failed
FREIKORPS
Anti-Communist ex-soldiers who formed themselves into vigilante groups
Ebert made an agreement to put down the rebelion
Though he won the elections and became president of the WEIMAR REPUBLIC
The Treaty of Versailles
Germany lost lost part of its natural resourses, colonies, land and population
The army was reduced and they were forced to accept blame and pay reparations
People turned thier fury on Ebert
Economic chaos
The Ruhr
The negociations Ebert tryed to carry out failed
What was owned was paid in raw materials and goods
Hyperinflation
Germany had no goods to trade
Started the printing money
Too much money in circulation
Prices rised apace
August 1923, New goverment, Gustav Stressmann
Solved economic crisis by negociating
Hyperinflation left damage, the right-wing opponents blamed the goverment for loosing the support of the middle class
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