weimar Germany
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- Early Issues For the Weimar Republic
- Kaiser Abdicating
- Ran way before end of WW1
- Became very unpopular during ww1
- Germany had to create new government
- Became known as the Weimar republic
- Government surrender ww1 thought they were getting the 14 pionts
- Accused of 'Stabbing Germany in the back'
- 'November Criminals'
- Went to Netherlands
- Workers and soldiers set up various Governments around the country
- TRAWL
- Political Problems
- Ebert first leader
- Reichstag used Proportional representation
- Coalition Governments
- President can appoint and dismiss chancellor as wishes
- Artical 48
- Right wing Judges
- Spartacists
- Communists
- Saw getting rid of the kaiser as just the beginning
- Fed up with Weimar
- January 1919 attempted revolution
- Badly organised by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Leibknecht
- Crushed by Freikrops
- Over 600 communists killed
- Freikrops
- Made up of armed forces Officers that did not want to be demobilised
- Hate communism
- Had weapons
- March 1920 over 5,000 supporters lead a putch
- Took control of Berlin
- Government fled and the workers stricked
- Woofgang Kapp named leader
- Failed due to workers strick Kapp fled to Sweden
- Invasion of the Ruhr
- Germany did not pay reparations in 1922
- France did not understand Germany full economical issues
- 1923 French and Belgium troops invade Ruhr
- To get reparations
- Workers do passive resistance
- The french send in their own workers
- Increase shortages in Germany
- Prices went up
- Government printed more notes
- Hyperinflation
- Caused by Ruhr invasion
- People with fixed incomes and pensions suffered most
- wages got higher but slower than the prices
- People rushed to by things before prices increased any more
- People with loans and debts benefited the most
- Some companies went bankrupt
- Savings destroyed
- Kaiser Abdicating
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