Weimar Republic

Question 1

What did Kapp putsch followers believe?

Answer 1

• Weimar republic = symbol of defeat in the war.
• The democracy = weak.
• Treaty of versailles = furious with the government for signing.

Question 2

Who were the leaders of the Kapp Putsch?

Answer 2

Wolfgang Kapp and the Freikorps

Question 3

Who didn’t support the Kapp Putsch?

Answer 3

Workers

Question 4

What did workers do during the Kapp Putsch?

Answer 4

Went on strike to help the government.

Question 5

Where did the kapp putsch happen?

Answer 5

Berlin

Question 6

When was the Kapp putsch?

Answer 6

March, 1920

Question 7

What did the Spartacists believe in?

Answer 7

Communism

Question 8

Who were the leaders of the Spartacists?

Answer 8

Rosa luxemburg and karl Liebknecht

Question 9

What did the spartacists do?

Answer 9

Revolts which seized power in Berlin and Baltic ports?

Question 10

What was the result of the spartacist revolts?

Answer 10

They were crushed by freikorps and leaders assassinated!

Question 11

What were the terms of the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 11

• Accepting guilt for the war.
• Limited arms forces.
• Reparations.
• Land.

Question 12

What happened when Germany could no longer pay reparations?

Answer 12

French and Belgian troops were sent to the ruhr to take much of germanys valuable materials.

Question 13

Explain a few outcomes of the hyperinflation in Germany in 1923?

Answer 13

• Peoples savings became useless.
• People on fixed incomes (pensioners) suffered badly.
• Food and fuel was unaffordable.

Question 14

When did Gustav Stresemann form the new government?

Answer 14

September 1923

Question 15

What did streseman do?

Answer 15

He stopped printing money, created a new currency; the rentenmark, ad called off the resistance against france.

Question 16

When was the Munich Putsch?

Answer 16

November 8th 1923

Question 17

Describe the Nazis aims for the Munich Putsch?

Answer 17

•At a political meeting in a Munich beer-hall , Hitler and the Nazis tried to seize control of the Bavarian government.

Question 18

What went wrong with the munich Putsch?

Answer 18

• Bavarian police opened fire on the Nazis’, killing 16.

* Hitler was sent to prison for treason.

Question 19

What were the positives of the Munich Putch failing?

Answer 19

• He received a minimum sentence.
• He served his sentence comfortably.
• Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in prison.

Question 20

What was the Dawes Plan?

Answer 20

In 1924 Stresemann signed it. It meant that Germany recieved huge loans from the USA.

Question 21

Benefits of the Dawes Plan?

Answer 21

> reparations were easier to pay.
unemployment fell.
industry benefitted from new investments.

Question 22

When was German admitted into the League of Nations?

Answer 22

1926

Question 23

Cultural life during the Weimar Republic?

Answer 23

• German cinema developed.

* Theatre flourished.