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Title: Key Areas of the Weimar Republic in 1918 - 1923
Description: These notes include: - Problems that Germany faced after WW1 - How the Weimar Republic Worked - The Treaty of Versailles: Main Terms and the reactions the German people - Brief notes of the Spartacists and the Kapp Putsch. - Early Nazi Party: The early 20s, How Hitler became the leader and the main features of the Nazi Party. - The Economic Crisis: Invasion of the Ruhr, Passive Resistance, and Hyperinflation. These notes are made for GCSE level students but can be used for higher level students for a quick recap of the basics.

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The Spartacists

Problems that Germany Faced After WW1
Main Problems
 Food shortages from 1917 onwards – famine was





severe that riots broke out
...

Malnutrition resulted in a disease epidemic –
higher amount of people died due to the Spanish
flu in 1918/19 than any other nation
...

Kaiser abdicated, he had become unpopular –
Ebert made the republic and became president
...


How the Weimar Republic worked?
 A democratic system
 Article 48 allows the president to rule on their own
 Proportional representation voting system allowed
lots of different parties to get into the Reichstag
...

 Their main views were rally
against the: communists
and socialists for bringing
down the Kaiser, the
Weimar republic for
accepting the Treaty of
Versailles, the Jews who
they blamed for
undermining the German
economy
...
(War Guilt Clause)
...

to war in self-defence
...

navy was reduced to 6 battleships and 15’000
 Money couldn’t be used
sailors, army reduced to 100,000 and
for Germany and
Rhineland was demilitarised
...

lands were given back to Prussia, Eupen
malmady lost to Belgium, Germany lost all over
sea colonies to the allies, Poland and ChezoSlovacia weren’t countries before ww1
...

 He helped to create the
parties 25-point
programme
...

 He suggested that they
change the name and
make a flag (the
swastika)
...


Leader: Wolfgang Kapp

The uprising left the
Reichstag dependant
on the Freikorps
...


Extreme Nationalist
Took place in 1920 and
12000 marched on to
Berlin
...

Ebert wanted to reduce
dependence on the
Freikorps and tried to
disband it
...


Economic Crisis
Main features of the Nazi
Party
 They created the SA to act as
an army for the party
...

 The party program was made
to appeal to as many people
as possible, nationalist and
socialist
...


Invasion of the Ruhr/ Passive
resistance

Hyperinflation

The allies occupied the Ruhr because France Because the Government needed to pay for
believed that they couldn’t pay reparations
...
Over
area so when this was taken over, it
time this meant that the prices began to
reduced the amount of money that the
spin out of control
...
The workers weren’t happy marks = 1 USD and in 1923 – 4
...

to stop working so the French couldn’t get
Who lost out?
any resources from it
...

Who Gained?
- Farmers
- People with loans
- Businessmen and workers


Title: Key Areas of the Weimar Republic in 1918 - 1923
Description: These notes include: - Problems that Germany faced after WW1 - How the Weimar Republic Worked - The Treaty of Versailles: Main Terms and the reactions the German people - Brief notes of the Spartacists and the Kapp Putsch. - Early Nazi Party: The early 20s, How Hitler became the leader and the main features of the Nazi Party. - The Economic Crisis: Invasion of the Ruhr, Passive Resistance, and Hyperinflation. These notes are made for GCSE level students but can be used for higher level students for a quick recap of the basics.