weimar germany

Question 1

november revolution

Answer 1

1918 germany signs armstice to end ww1

Question 2

weimar republic

Answer 2

democracy and disagreements with political parties

Question 3

treaty of versailles

Answer 3

november 1919 loss of territory, military restrictions and reparations

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diktat

Answer 4

dictated peace controlled by others

Question 5

stab in the back myth

Answer 5

make sense of shock of defeat

Question 6

november criminals

Answer 6

labeled the government because of signing the treaty

Question 7

communism

Answer 7

population where everyone is ruled equally and no hierarchy

Question 8

kaiser

Answer 8

king

Question 9

spartacist uprising

Answer 9

1920 communist group lead by rosa luxemburg and karl

Question 10

nationalism

Answer 10

support and pride in one’s country

Question 11

kapp putsch

Answer 11

lead by wolfgang kapp- conservative party wanting to restore the kaiser

Question 12

french ocupation of the rhur

Answer 12

1923 germans unable to produce goods, shot dead and some expelled

Question 13

passive resistance

Answer 13

peaceful strikes and protests, refusing orders

Question 14

impacts of the rhur

Answer 14

german worker unable to produce goods, poverty and starvation

Question 15

hyperinflation

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1923 overproduction of money in an economy

Question 16

causes of hyperinflation

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had to pay reparations but no money so they printed more money

Question 17

impacts of hyperinflation

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reichsmark lost value and unregular wage paid people suffered

Question 18

chancellor gustav stresemann

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1924 creates rentenmark and introduces plan to restore german economy- politician and economist

Question 19

dawes plan

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1924 repair german economy and borrow loans from the us

Question 20

young plan

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1929 extend germany’s due date for reparations

Question 21

league of nations council

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foreign relations joined in 1926

Question 22

golden age of the weimar

Answer 22

standard of living improved and government was trusted again

Question 23

adolf hitler

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belived in german victory and volunteered to serve in army

Question 24

public speeches

Answer 24

used to promote his ideas throughout the country

Question 24

propaganda

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biased media, turning germans against the government

Question 25

socialist

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support families, mothers, farmers

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nazi parties nationalist views

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germany shouldn't pay reparations/ antisemitism

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sturmabeilung

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paramilitary group aranged by hitler

Question 28

munich putsch

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1923 uprising against government, hitler went to jail and on trial

Question 29

mein kampf

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racial purity, against communism, expand into europe, nationalism

Question 30

great depression

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american loans pulled out and germans went into poverty

Question 31

wall street crash

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1929 shares collapsed in america

Question 32

impacts of great depression

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1932 unemployment at 6 million and fall in living standards

Question 32

chancellor heinrich bruning

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1930-1932 from the centre party

Question 33

bruning's descision

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unpopular as raised taxes, lowered wages and reduced sallaries

Question 34

nazi party popularity

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turn away from government to extremist parties, speeches, propaganda,

Question 35

hitler appointed chancellor

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jan 30th 1933- reich chancellor hitler

Question 36

riechstag elections

Answer 36

1932 elections called by president