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

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