Weimar - Strengths and Weaknesses

Question 1

What is a Republic?

Answer 1

A republic is a country not ruled by a king.

Question 2

Where was the new republic declared?

Answer 2

Weimar

Question 3

What guaranteed the German people freedom and equality?

Answer 3

A Bill of Rights guaranteed the German people freedom and equality.

Question 4

At what age were men and women given the vote?

Answer 4

20

Question 5

In what way could the Weimar constitution claim to have been better than the British constitution?

Answer 5

Women aged 20 had the vote.

Question 6

Which of the following powers did the Reichstag not have?
The power to make the laws.

The power to appoint the government

The power to elect a president

Answer 6

The Reichstag did not have the power to elect a president.

Question 7

What was “proportional representation”?

Answer 7

“Proportional representation” was that every group in society was fairly represented in the Reichstag.

Question 8

Article 48 was…

Answer 8

Article 48 was the right of the president to pass laws in an emergency.