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Unit 1: Change and conflict (Ideologies and conflict 1918-1945)
Quick questions on Weimar Germany 1918-1933 (VCE Modern History Unit 1)
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What is november Revolution?Show answer
As Germany lost the war, sailors mutinied at Kiel and the Kaiser abdicated. Friedrich Ebert (Social Democrat) became Chancellor. The Republic was proclaimed on 9 November 1918.
What is spartacist uprising?Show answer
Communist rising in Berlin led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht crushed by the Freikorps. Luxemburg and Liebknecht murdered. Left-right tension defined the Republic.
What is weimar Constitution?Show answer
President directly elected; Chancellor and Cabinet responsible to the Reichstag. Article 48 gave the President emergency decree powers. Proportional representation produced fragmented parliaments.
What is treaty of Versailles?Show answer
Germany lost $13$% of territory and $10$% of population. War-guilt clause (Article 231). $132$ billion gold marks in reparations.
What is brüning chancellorship?Show answer
Heinrich Brüning's deflationary policy (cutting wages and spending) deepened the depression. Parliament became unworkable; he governed by Article 48 decree.
What is nazi electoral surge?Show answer
NSDAP vote: $2.6$% (1928), $18.3$% (1930), $37.3$% (July 1932), $33.1$% (November 1932). Communist vote also rose. Together the extremes commanded a majority hostile to the Republic.
What is hitler's appointment?Show answer
Conservative politicians around President Hindenburg (former Chancellor Papen and General Schleicher) believed they could use Hitler. Papen famously said "we have hired him". Within $18$ months Hitler had consolidated dictatorship: Reichstag Fire (February 1933), Enabling Act (March 1933), one-party state (July 1933), Night of the Long Knives (June 1934), Führer (August 1934).
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