GERMANY AFTER THE WW1

Was practicaly in bankrupt
1. Income reduced in conection to 1913
2. Industrial prodction decreased
3. Soldier's death left too many orphans and widows
Started a notable discord in society
1. Rich & poor
2. Industrious women & People who thought "tradition of family" was broken up
3. Workers who won little money during the war & Factories' owners who made fortunes
Unstable democratic republic
1. Stresses ended up in a revolution in 1918
2. Ex-soldiers and civilians took Field Marshal Hindenburg as the real hero
Auttum 1918, The Allies won the war
1. Offered Germany peace under some conditions
  1. The Kiser refused
    1. November 1918, the Kiser abdicated his throne
      1. 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
1. Germany lost lost part of its natural resourses, colonies, land and population
2. The army was reduced and they were forced to accept blame and pay reparations
3. People turned thier fury on Ebert
4. Economic chaos
  1. The Ruhr
    1. The negociations Ebert tryed to carry out failed
      1. What was owned was paid in raw materials and goods
5. Hyperinflation
  1. Germany had no goods to trade
    1. Started the printing money
      1. Too much money in circulation
        Prices rised apace
August 1923, New goverment, Gustav Stressmann
1. Solved economic crisis by negociating
2. Hyperinflation left damage, the right-wing opponents blamed the goverment for loosing the support of the middle class

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