Glossary
Weimar Constitution
Political Instability
Stresemann
Golden Age
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German state from the end of WW1 (1918) to the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor (1933).

Weimar Republic

100

What is a constitution?

List of basic principles and laws of a country, written down in a single document.

100

Paramilitary group made up of mainly WW1 veterans, who combined right-wing ideas with violent means.

Freikorps

100

Why did Belgium and France invade the Ruhr in 1923?

Because Germany had stopped paying reparations.

100

Name for the most famour German actress?

Marlene Dietrich.

200

Agreement in 1924 where American loaned money to Weimar Germany so they could pay off their reparations. 

Dawes Plan

200

German head of state under the Weimar constitution. Elected every seven years, they could exercise emergency powers only in extraordinary circumstances.

President

200

What were the aims of the Spartacists in Weimar?

To turn Germany into a Communist state. Full equality for all citizens.

200

How did Stresemann got rid of hyperinflation?

New currency: rentenmark

200

What were artists painting about in the 1920s? Mention two.

Reality, consequences of war, failing morality, abstract feelings

300

In Weimar Germany, conservative and nationalist ideology that wanted the return to an imperial past and concentrate power under the Kaiser.

Right-wing

300

How was the Chancellor elected?

The president chose him.

300

Who led the Spartacists?

Karl Liebnecht and Rosa Luxemburg

300

How did the Ruhr invasion lead to hyperinflation?

Worker strikes - money printing

300

How did architecture change from the 19th to the 20th century?

Minimalism, focus on function, industrial design, less color and ornament

400

 Stab-in-the-back myth after World War 1, when many Germans believed they lost the war because of treason from politicians, Jews and communists.

Dolchstoss

400

Who could vote under the Weimar Constitution?

All men and women over 21.

400

How was the Kapp Putsch stopped? Why?

Worker strikes, because they did not agree with the principles followed by the Freikorps.

400

Besides a new currency, what else did Stresemann do for Weimar's economic and diplomatic recovery? Mention three.

Dawes Plan, Young Plan, Locarno Treaty, League of Nations, Kelogg-Briand Pact

400

What allowed the changes in culture in the Weimar Republic?

Funding for museums and galleries, no censorship, freedom of speech, experience of war

500

Electoral system where the divisions in population are refleced proportionaly in those being elected.

Proportional Representation

500

What were two problems in the constitution? Why?

Article 48, Proportional Representation, Coalition Governments

500

What do the Spartacist uprising and the Kapp Putsch teach us about the weaknesses of the Weimar Republic?

That the Weimar Republic was not strong enough to fight uprisings, and had to rely on people outside the army to crush them.

500

What are two problems that are still happening in Stresemann's Weimar?

Dependance on USA, the consequences of the ToV were still present, extremist parties gained support

500

Mention three positive changes for women in the new Constitution.

Women had equal rights legally, right to vote and stand in elections, more loose clothes, make up, out unescorted, divorce, less wife-oriented lives