The establishment of Weimar

Question 1

Who was appointed German Chancellor in October 1918?

Answer 1

Prince Max of Baden

Question 2

The October Reforms saw what political party brought into the Kaiser’s government?

Answer 2

SPD

Question 3

On October 3 Prince Max sent what to President Wilson?

Answer 3

Peace Note

Question 4

How many points did President Wilson set out?

Answer 4

14

Question 5

Why did the Kaiser reform his government in October 1918?

Answer 5

Because Ludendorff told him that the war was lost

Question 6

When did sailors begin to mutiny?

Answer 6

28 October

Question 7

When did the Kiel Naval Mutiny begin?

Answer 7

3 November 1918

Question 8

What had sprung up spontaneously around Germany by 6 November 1918?

Answer 8

Workers’ and Soldiers’ Councils

Question 9

On 8 November where was a Republic proclaimed?

Answer 9

Bavaria

Question 10

Which political party called on workers in Berlin to join a General Strike to force the Kaiser to abdicate?

Answer 10

SPD

Question 11

Who unilaterally proclaimed that the Kaiser had abdicated on November 9?

Answer 11

Prince Max of Baden

Question 12

Who replaced Prince Max as Chancellor on November 9?

Answer 12

Friedrich Ebert of SPD

Question 13

Which SPD leader declared a Republic in Berlin?

Answer 13

Philip Scheidemann

Question 14

Who told the Kaiser that the army would no longer fight for him?

Answer 14

General Groener

Question 15

Was Ebert a revolutionary?

Answer 15

No

Question 16

When was the armistice that ended the fighting in the First World War signed?

Answer 16

11 November 1918

Question 17

What was Ebert’s immediate priorities?

Answer 17

Keep Germany from disintegrating…and organising elections to a Constituent Assembly

Question 18

Which revolutionary group did Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg lead?

Answer 18

Spartacist League (later KPD)

Question 19

Which party, that broke away from SPD, did Hugo Hasse lead?

Answer 19

USPD

Question 20

When did the new SPD and the Soldiers’ and Workers’ Councils sign a compromise deal?

Answer 20

22 November

Question 21

Who (on Nov 10) assured Ebert of the army’s loyalty…if, in return, the SPD government left the army alone?

Answer 21

General Groener

Question 22

When did sailors of Volksmarinedivision revolt against the government?

Answer 22

23 – 24 December

Question 23

When did the Spartacists revolt?

Answer 23

6 January 1919 (January Revolution)

Question 24

Who crushed both the sailors and the Spartacists revolts?

Answer 24

Reichswehr & Freikorps

Question 25

When were elections to the new Constituent Assembly held?

Answer 25

19 January 1919

Question 26

Who was allowed to vote for the first time?

Answer 26

Women

Question 27

Which party won most seats in the 1919 elections?

Answer 27

SPD

Question 28

Which party represented mostly Catholic interests?

Answer 28

Centre (Z)

Question 29

Which party was left-leaning liberal party?

Answer 29

German Democratic Party (DDP)

Question 30

Which right wing nationalist party rejected democracy?

Answer 30

German National People’s Party (DNVP)

Question 31

Did the German People’s Party (DVP) oppose the new republic but promise to work with the government?

Answer 31

Yes

Question 32

Where did the new assembly meet?

Answer 32

Weimar

Question 33

Who was elected (by the Assembly) as the first President of the Weimar Republic?

Answer 33

Ebert

Question 34

What voting system did the new Weimar Constitution use in federal elections?

Answer 34

Proportional representation

Question 35

Were ‘all Germans equal before the law’ under the new Weimar Constitution?

Answer 35

Yes

Question 36

What percentage of the electorate needed to support an issue in order to cause a referendum to be called?

Answer 36

10%

Question 37

What article allowed the President to rule by decree?

Answer 37

48

Question 38

What was the difference between the Reichstag and Lander?

Answer 38

National parliament vs local (state) parliament

Question 39

What Article of the Constitution guaranteed the independence of the judiciary?

Answer 39

Article 102

Question 40

What did General von Seeckt (Commander-in-Chief of the Army from 1920) think about the Republic?

Answer 40

He thought it was just temporary and that the army did not owe it any loyalty

Question 41

Was the civil service generally made up of officials from the Kaiser’s time?

Answer 41

Yes

Question 42

Did most German’s think that the army had been defeated in WW1?

Answer 42

No

Question 43

Did most German’s think that the army had been ‘stabbed in the back’ by left wing politicians and Jews in WW1?

Answer 43

Yes