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Weimar Republic: problems in the 1920s
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Weimar Republic: problems in the 1920s
Defeat in WW1
Germany was in a bad state at the end of the war
Allies had stopped supplies reaching them
Political unrest
Strikes
angry about losing the war
Treaty of Versailles unfair
Treaty of versailles
Land
England wanted some colonies
German had to give back the land taken to France
German had to hand over 13% of their land
Money
Reparations of £6600million
Army
Germany had to hand over their defences
Submarines
Tanks
Airforce
Blame
Germany forced to sign document to say they had started the war
The war guilt clause
Political violence
Left wing
The spartacist rising
Spartacist league
Communists
Diddn't trust goverment
Tried to start a revolution
Got thwarted by government instantly
Red rising in the Rhur
Workers led by communist party
Workers angry about pay
Red army of 50,000 ached on the Rhur
Had weak leadership so never was a real threat
Right wing
Kapp Putsch
Friekorps, led by Wolfgang Kapp
12,000 Freicorps marched to berlin and Kapp took over for 4 days
Government came back after the public rebelled against them
Munich Putsch (Nazis)
Marched to munich with the support of Khar
Threatened government and almost took over
Khar withdrew his support
Nazi army was amnushed by the government
Invasion of the Rhur
France and Belgium marched to the rhineland
Demanded reparations from Germany
Germany couldn't pay them
Workers went on strike
German leader persuaded them to leave eventually
Hyper-Inflation
2)The German mark becomes less valuable as more money is printed
1)Government prints more money to pay for war reparations
3)Rises in prices means that salaries cannot keep up
4)The mark is now worthless, everyday goods are bought at ridiculously high prices
Definition: When the prices increase so much that the economy cannot keep up
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