When was the conference in Versailles?
1921
1920
1918
1919
How many countries attended the conference?
32
34
22
23
Who were known as the 'Big Three'?
Germany, France, Britain
China, Japan, Russia
Britain, France, America
What happened to the leader of Germany toward the end of WW1?
Germany surrendered
Germany won the war
What did the new Provisional Government sign?
Wilson's 11 points
Armistice
Rhineland
weimar constitution
Article 48
In Germany 1919 it was now a what state?
Communist
Democratic Republic
Dictatorship
Who was Freidrich Ebert?
The Primeinister
The President
A Chancellor
What problems did Ebert face?
The Allied Blockade
He fell out with the other leaders
Germany had debt
Food shortages
He did not want to be leader
Influenza broke out
High levels of unemployment
Great divide between rich and poor
Germans did not understand the Government
Ebert faced opposition
Eberts competition from left and right wings
right-wanted Germany to be like Russia was in 1917
right-Kaiser's former advisers remained in their positions
right-wanted Kaiser to return and rule Germany again
left-Germany could of carried on, new politicians associated with defeat and humiliation
left-Communists
What is the Weimar Republic?
gang of thugs fighting all over Berlin
Government meeting in secret
people in Weimar starting their own revolution
What is the Rhineland?
part of germany were British and french troops should occupy
part of britain were it was used to hold conferences
an agreement of where to have all the german troops placed
which leader was most concerned for a stable Europe?
llyode george
woodrow wilson
clemenceau
which leader wanted to make germany really suffer for WW1?
clenmenceau
llyod george
who made up the '14 point plan'?
lloyd george
cenemceau
what was the DIKTAT?
germany had to pay reparations
germany werte blackmailed in to signing it
a friendship agreement
the DIKTAT can be split up in to how many parts?
4
3
5
6
Advantages about Article 48
Germany became the most democratic country over night
every vote is now counted fair
in emergency quick decisions needed quick decisions can be made as they can 'rule by decree' as the Reichstag are slow
Advantages of Proportional Representation
in emergency the leader can make quick decisions if needed as they can 'rule by decree' as the Reichstag are slow
every vote is counted so it is fair
Disadvantage of democracy
too quick a change. should of done it gradually. many people couldn't cope from undemocratic (kaiser) leader to very democratic leader (Weimar)
no party could get an overall majority (51%) so lots of small parties had seats causing a very slow response. bad in emergency
the president was allowed to decide when it was an emergency. open to abuse if they wanted power.
the name of the left wing party that tried to make a revolution in 1919
freecorps
spartacists
nazis