Weimar Republic

Origin

Allies offered Germany peace

Under strict conditions

Germany should be more democrat

The Kaiser refused

Kiel was tooked over

Caused

Socialist

Led uprising of workers and soliders in other German ports

Other cities followed

Bavaria an independent Socialist Republic was declared

The Socialist leader

Became the new leader of the Republic

Signed an armistice with the Allies

Gave Germany

Freedom of speech

Freedom of worship

Better working conditions

The Kaiser abdicated on the 9 November 1928

Name

The new government met in the small town of

Because Berlin was under violence

Organisation

German people

President

Courts

Chancellor

Government Ministers

Armed forces

Reichstag

17 local governments

Their power was limited

More democrat

Opposition

From the Left

Spartacists

Leaders

Wanted

Germany ruled by workers councils and soviets

Were stopped

Freikorps

Ex soldiers

Made an agreement with Ebert

Caused

Bitterness between them and his Socialist Party

Approval from many in Germany

From the Right

People that had liked the Kaiser

1920

Kapp Putch

5000 freikorps made a rebellion

The army refused to fire

Solution

German people

Decleared a general strike

Capital

Halt with no transports, power or water

Leader

Realised he could not succeed and left the country

1922/1923

Munich Putch

Walther Rathenau was murdered

A rebellion in Munich

Short prison sentences

Problems

Treaty of Versailles

People turned their fury into Ebert

Severe conditions of it

Economic

Germany didnt pay the second year

French and Belgian troops

(Legal under the Treaty of Versailles)

Took raw materials and goods

Did a pacific resistance

Soldiers began killing people

Started producing again

Government printed money

Hyperinflation

There was a lot of money in circulation

More opposition from the Right and middle classes

Called of the passive resistance

Called in the wothless marks and burned them

Negotiated to receive American loans

Was poured into German industry

They could be called in at short notice

Ruin

Renegotiated the reparations payments

Longer periods to pay

By 1928 Germany

Achieved the same levels of production as before war

Peasant farmers, miner, small business owners and middle classes

Were the main losers

Began to feel that the government offered them little

Reparations were being paid

Exports were on increase

Culture

New buildings

Berlin became famous

Daring and liberated night life

People in the countryside

Thought this represented a moral decline

Wanted a return to simple country values and wanted to see more help for the countryside

Censorship was removed

Politics

There was almost no opposition

Nazis and Communists were building up their party organisation

Won the elections

Extremely from the Right

Foreign

Locarno Treaties

Not to try to change borders with France and Belgium

Was attacked by Communists

Was accepted

The League of Nations

Were attacked by Nationalists

Young Plan

Lightened the reparations

Removal of

British

French

Belgium

Troops from the

Rhineland