Weimar Germany

Question 1

Year of Weimar Republic Creation

Answer 1

1919

Question 2

Number of houses of legislature

Answer 2

2

Question 3

Reichstag

Answer 3

Lower house - 1 deputy for every 60,000 votes - typically leader of the largest party serves as chancellor

Question 4

Reichsrat

Answer 4

Upper house - each state has 1 vote - no more than 2/5s of the vote per state - deputies

Question 5

Presidential Power under WG

Answer 5

7 yr term - elected by popular vote - worked with chancellor - article 48

Question 6

3 periods of Weimar history

Answer 6

Chaos, apparent prosperity, and upheaval/depression

Question 7

Freikorps

Answer 7

paramilitary units from the right

Question 8

Treaty of Rapallo

Answer 8

Soviet Union stops asking for German reparations, Germany stops asking for SU debt, Germany allowed to train troops and build weapons in Russia

Question 9

Soviet Union and Nazi Germany common goals

Answer 9

Trade, technology, and elimination of Poland

Question 10

What did Germany do to get out of paying reparations

Answer 10

Started printing money to intentionally cause inflation and loss of value of the mark

Question 11

Who stabilized the German currency?

Answer 11

Stresemann

Question 12

What plan did Stresemann create?

Answer 12

Dawes Plan, 1924

Question 13

What was the Dawes Plan?

Answer 13

Reparations lowered, paid in German currency, France evacuated Ruhr, allies take control of the bank and railroads, Germany got $800 million dollar loan from the US

Question 14

Name of Hitler’s Coup in Munich

Answer 14

Beer Hall Putsch

Question 15

When did Weimar Germany return to normalcy?

Answer 15

1924-1929

Question 16

Treaty of Locarno

Answer 16

Germany and France say no war against each other and Germany enters the League of Nations