Weimar republic
Germany before Weimar
Before war
Prosperous
They like the Kaiser
After war
Germany was ruined
The people were weak
The birth
1918
Under strict rules
Germany had to
Be democratic
The Kaiser didnt accept
After some time
He abdicated
Bavaria elected a president
Frederich Ebert
Was chosen president
Capital was on Weimar
Berlin was destroyed
Signed an armistice
Gave
Freedom of worship
Freedom of speech
Better working conditions
A new constitution
Socialist
Faced oposition
The right
Old goberment oficials
Restricted the goberment
Ebert stabbed Germany
People who grown succseful
During Kaisers time
And they liked
Having a strong army
To expand
In 1920
Freikorps rebeled in berlin
Kappsputch
Army refused to fire
Rebelion was stopped
By the people
Hitler also rebeled
But was imprisoned
The left
Thought comunism was needed
Ebert was socialist
Spartacists
Bolsheviks
Argued against Ebert
Rebeled
Freikorps stopped them
Also in Bavaria
A comunist state declared
Was also stopped
And in the Ruhr
Political organisation
German people
President
Judges
Courts
Chancellor
Gobermenrt ministers
Armed forces
17 local goberments
Reichstag
Set up
Greatest democracy
Proportional representation
Gain to much power
Under article 48
People blamed Ebert
For the treaty of Versailles
And the clauses of it
They had to pay
for reparations
Couldnt pay
France and Belgium invaded
The Ruhr
People went on strike
They were killed
They printed more money
Caused hyperinflation
Stresseman changed the marks
For the Rentenmark
Under Stresemann
Achievements
Economical
Brought back prosperity
US loans
800 million Marks
Wages rose
1928 same production
as before
Political
More stable politics
No more revolution
atemps after 1923
Moderate parties
more representatives
Socialsts worked well
together
Culture
There was a cultural
revival
Free expresion of ideas
Great architecture
Gold era of cinema
Foreign policy
Locarno treaty
not to change
western borders
Accepted to the
league of nations
Negociated a young
plan
Problems
Economy
Precarious
Us loans could ruin it
Main winners
Big buisneses
For example
Profesor were paid
Much less than before
Unemployment rose
Politics
Nazis and Comunist
Builded their organisation
30 persent of the votes
Oposing parties
DNVP and Nazis
Worked together
1926
Hindenburg
Elected president
Was oposed to
democracy
Culture
Taditionalist
Oposed to the diversity
Moral decline
Worse because of
inmigrants
Diferent movements against
cultural diversity
Foreign policy
Nationalist attacked Stresemann
Joining the League
of Nations
Signing the Locarno
treaty
Comunist attacked him
Anti-comunist