Why was the Weimar Republic so unpopular

Question 1

When was the treaty of Versailles signed

Answer 1

June 28, 1919

Question 2

What did the treaty of Versailles do to Germany

Answer 2

Damage Germany’s economy making the Weimar Republic week from the start as people blame the leaders for signing it

Question 3

What was the treaty of Versailles

Answer 3

Peace treaty made by their allies Britain France and USA at the Paris peace conference (Germany wasnt invited)

Question 4

What was Friedrich Ebert’s reaction to the treaty of Versailles

Answer 4

Initially refused but couldn’t take the risk 7 June 1919 he accepted the terms

Question 5

What was the treaty and the Republic referred to as

Answer 5

The November criminals for surrendering in November 1918 and being traitors to their country
Backstabbers for betraying the army as they thought they could still win
Called the treaty Dicktat which means forced peace

Question 6

What was article 213

Answer 6

War guilt clause
Germany have to take full responsibility for starting the war

Question 7

How much money in article 232 did Germany have to pay the allies in reparation

Answer 7

6.6 billion

Question 8

How many men with the German army limited to

Answer 8

100,000 men
Six battleships
Six cruises
12 destroyers
12 torpedo boats
No submarines
No planes or air force allowed
no military allowed in the Rhineland

Question 9

What happened to the area of Saar

Answer 9

Was an important industrial area I was put under control of the league of Nations for 15 years

Question 10

What happened to Germany’s colonies in Africa

Answer 10

They were given to the allies

Question 11

The league of Nations was formed for who was not allowed to join

Answer 11

Germany

Question 12

What happened to the city of Danzig

Answer 12

Was taken from Germany and made a free city under the league of Nations

Question 13

What happened to the Rhineland

Answer 13

It was demilitarised

Question 14

What happened to Anschluss (Union)

Answer 14

The union between Germany and Austria was forbidden

Question 15

Who was the Spartacist

Answer 15

Left-wing
came from the independent socialist party
had backing from the Soviet union
led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl liebknecht
based in Berlin

Question 16

What did the Spartacist believe in

Answer 16

Communism and wanted Germany to be run by workers and soldiers

Question 17

Who were the Freikorps

Answer 17

Right-wing
made up of ex soldiers who had kept their weapons
had 250,000 men in March 1919
organised by regular army

Question 18

What did the Freikorps want

Answer 18

Egg soldiers recently home from World War I hate of the Spartacist because they blame them for stirring up trouble at the end of World War I

Question 19

Right wing Nazi party beliefs

Answer 19

Hey to the treaty of Versailles and wanted to make Germany great again

Question 20

Who were the SA

Answer 20

Storm troopers
violent group of ex soldiers
guard Hitler’s meetings and disrupt other parties

Question 21

When was the spartacist uprising

Answer 21

6th January 1919

Question 22

What occurred at the spartacist uprising

Answer 22

Spartacist trying to take over Berlin, thousands on the street shooting guns and trying to take over import buildings
Took over government newspaper and telegraph bureau and try to organise a general strike in Berlin 

Question 23

What did Ebert do in response to to the spartacist uprising

Answer 23

Sent 2000 Freikorps to attack
after three days of fighting the gained back buildings and arrested and beat the leaders (Rosa Luxembourg and Karl liebknecht)

Question 24

When did the kapp putsch occur

Answer 24

March 1920

Question 25

Why did many Freikorps decide to march on Berlin

Answer 25

As they feared unemployment as the treaty only allowed 100,000 men in the army and 12,000 men were disbanded

Question 26

What happened during the kapp putsch

Answer 26

Wolfgang kapp gathered and joined with leader general lutwitz and gathered 5000 me and ex police police officers to take over Berlin

Question 27

What did ebert do in response to the kapp putsch

Answer 27

Ordered army to stop them but general said ‘troops don’t fire on troops’
Workers went in strike so there was no food/water or electricity and the kapp putsch failed
Kapp fled after 100hrs

Question 28

Political attacks on the Weimar Republic

Answer 28

Right wing parties in the reichstag
The kapp putsch
Right wing bias in courts
Political assassinations
Left and right wing political armies
The spartacist revolt
Left wing parties in the reichstag

Question 29

When were politicians in the Weimar Republic worried about being assassinated

Answer 29

From 1919 - 1923

Question 30

How many political assassinations took place in the early years of the Weimar Republic

Answer 30

376 political assassinations

Question 31

Reactions to the murders

Answer 31

Right wing extremists used the murders to weaken the new republic
Conservative judges were sympathetic to the conservative cause and gave them light punishments