Weimar Germany

Question 1

What was signed in 1919?

Answer 1

The Treaty of Versailles

Question 2

What were the military terms of the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 2

The Rhineland was permanently demilitarised
The army was reduced to 100,000
Number of the Navy 15,000

Question 3

What percentage of the coal industry was taken in the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 3

16%

Question 4

What percentage of the German iron industry was taken by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 4

48%

Question 5

What were the economic consequences of the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 5

National income had fallen to 1/3 of what it had been pre war.
Germany was virtually bankrupt.
100 mark bond bought in 1914 was worth 30 by 1918.

Question 6

What were the social consequences of the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 6

War left Germany with 600,000 widows and 2,000,000 children without fathers.

Question 7

How much were Germany forced to pay in reparations due to the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 7

6,000,000,000 (billion) marks in instalments over many years.

Question 8

What were Germany forced to accept due to the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 8

War Guilt Clause 231

Question 9

What system was used to elect members to the Reichstag?

Answer 9

Proportional representation

Question 10

How many different cabinets did the Weimar government have between 1919-1933?

Answer 10

20

Question 11

Who was President of the Weimar republic in 1918 - 1925?

Answer 11

Freidrich Ebert

Question 12

Who became President of the Weimar republic in 1925?

Answer 12

Von Hindenburg

Question 13

What was article 48?

Answer 13

It meant that the President could rule through emergency decree.

Question 14

Which group attempted to seize power in Berlin in 1919?

Answer 14

Spartacists

Question 15

How long did the Spartacist revolt last?

Answer 15

7 days (5th - 12th January 1919)

Question 16

Why did the Spartacists fail?

Answer 16

To few workers and social democrats supported the uprising.
They were supressed by the army and the Freikorps.

Question 17

Who were the Spartacist leaders that were executed after the Spartacist uprising?

Answer 17

Rosa Luxembourg
Karl Leibknecht

Question 18

What were the threats from left wing opposition to the Weimar?

Answer 18

The Sparticists
Work/trade unions.
KPD

Question 19

What were the threats from right wing opposition against the Weimar?

Answer 19

NSDAP
DNVP

Question 20

What was a main cause for the Kapp Putsch?

Answer 20

The disbanding of the Freikorps.

Question 21

Who was the leader of the Kapp Putsch?

Answer 21

Wolfgang Kapp

Question 22

When was the Kapp Putsch?

Answer 22

1919

Question 23

When was the Munich Putsch?

Answer 23

1923

Question 24

Who was the leader of the Munich Putsch?

Answer 24

Adolf Hitler

Question 25

What was the aim of the Munich Putsch?

Answer 25

To establish a military dictatorship.

Question 26

Who was the WW1 commander that supported the Munich Putsch?

Answer 26

Ludendorff

Question 27

How long was Hitler sentenced to Prison?

Answer 27

5 years

Question 28

How much of Hitler's prison sentence did he actually serve?

Answer 28

9 months.

Question 29

What caused the invasion of the Ruhr?

Answer 29

Germany falling behind on reparation payments.

Question 30

What was Germany's response to the invasion of the Ruhr?

Answer 30

Workers went on strike.

Question 31

Who invaded the Ruhr in 1923?

Answer 31

France and Belgium

Question 32

What were the main causes of hyperinflation?

Answer 32

The cost of war Reparations

Question 33

The value of a mark in 1919 was 8.9 marks to dollar, what was it in 1922?

Answer 33

493.2 marks to a dollar

Question 34

What was the new currency Stresemann brought in?

Answer 34

The Rentenmark

Question 35

Which economist helped Stresemann create the new currency?

Answer 35

Schacht

Question 36

When were industrial production numbers back to 1913 levels?

Answer 36

1927

Question 38

How many deaths were there in the Spartacists revolt?

Answer 38

Over 100 were killed

Question 39

How many Freikorps members were there?

Answer 39

400,000 members

Question 40

What percentage of people voted in the 1919 election?

Answer 40

83%

Question 41

What percentage of people voted for pro-democratic parties in the 1919 election?

Answer 41

76.1%

Question 42

What did the DVP want in the 1919 election?

Answer 42

They wanted Germany to have a constitutional monarchy.

Question 43

What is a diktat?

Answer 43

A dictated peace. The Germans felt that the Treaty of Versailles was imposed without negotiation.

Question 44

Why did Red Bavaria fail?

Answer 44

The USPD leader Kurt Eisner took lead but failed to unite the socialist parties

Question 45

Who were the plotters in the Munich Putsch

Answer 45

Ludendorff Gustav Von Kahr Otto Von Lossow Adolf Hitler Hans Von Seeckt

Question 46

What percentage of the vote did pro-democratic parties get in 1920?

Answer 46

48%

Question 47

Who benefitted from hyperinflation 1923?

Answer 47

Mortgage Holders - Easily paid off Exporters - Sales to foreign countries were attractive because of the rate of exchange The German State - Large parts of the government debt were paid off in valueless money.

Question 48

Who was affected poorly by hyperinflation?

Answer 48

Savers - Money invested was eroded. Those on fixed incomes - Income declined in real terms dramatically Renters/Landlords - Income was fixed in the long term and so it declined in real terms.