The Weimar Republic

Democracy
1. President
  1. The chancellor
    1. The Reichstag
  2. The people
  3. Article 48 allowed for bypass of reaichstag
The Treaty of Versailles
1. War Guiltt
  1. Solely responsible
2. Reparations
  1. 'Compensation' of £6.6billion
3. Military restrictions
  1. Air Force disbanded
  2. Army limited to 100,000 men
  3. Navy restricted
    1. 15,000 men
    2. 6 battleships
    3. No submarines
4. Teritorial loss
  1. 13% of land shown on maps
    1. Polish corridor
    2. Alsace Lorraine
  2. Colonies lost
Political spectrum
1. Centre party
  1. Democracy
2. Social democrats
  1. Rights for working class
3. Communists
  1. Wanted revolution like in Russia
    1. Far Left
4. Conservatives and nationalists
  1. Restoration of Kaiser
5. Freikorps and Nazi party
  1. German power
    1. Far Right
Early threats
1. The Spartacist Rising-1919
  1. Far left revolutionaries
    1. Inspired by events in Russia
    2. Rosa Luxemburg
  2. Defeated
    1. Army and Freikorps
      1. Suppressed uprising formidably and brutally
    2. Not a serious threat
      1. Unorganised
      2. No training
2. The Kapp Putsch-1920
  1. Far right
    1. Freikorps
      1. Pressured to disband
      2. Led by Wolfgang Kapp
    2. Get rid of treaty of Versailles
  2. Defeated
    1. Government called on a workers strike
      1. Industry ground to a hault
        Passive as military wouldn't fight former members
    2. Serious threat
      1. Powerless to stop without peoples support
3 crisis of 1923
1. Occupation of the Ruhr
  1. French soldiers ensuring reparations
    1. Passive resistance implemented but not successful
      1. Called off, industry resumed
2. Munich putsch
  1. The Nazi party
    1. Led by Hitler
    2. Support of WW1 General Ludendorf
  2. Poor execution
    1. Police contacted
      1. Easily suppressed
        Leaders arrested and given public trial
        Hitler able to gain public support
        Lenient sentence
        Mein Kampf
3. Hyperinflation
  1. Reparations payed by printing more money
    1. Devalues all existing currency
      1. Fixed wages suffered
        Starvation
        Poverty
      2. Variable wages coped
        People in debt able to pay
    2. Workers on strike also payed
  2. Dealt with
    1. Streseman
      1. Ended passive resistance
      2. Introduction of new currency
        Rentenmark
        Supply monitored
        Higher value

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