weimar republic

weimar republic

1. the treaty of versailles

   • rearation
     • fixed sum £6600 million
       • 1921
     • payed in annual instalments
   • war guilt
     • article 231
     • take blame for war
   • military terms
     • no air craft
     • no submarines
     • 6 battleships
       • 15000 sailors
     • 100000 army
     • demilitarised Ryineland
   • territorial terms
     • alsace-lorraine france
     • west posen, upper sileia and posen poland
     • lost all overseas colonies

2. kapp putsch

   • freikorps
     • ex servicemen
   • over throw weimar republic
   • led by dr kapp
   • government forced to flee
   • defeated by general strike
   • 1920

3. the spartacist uprising

   • communist party
   • led by rosa luxemburg and karl liebneckt
   • 1919
   • stoped by freikorps
   • named after a gladiator how led a revolt
   • inspired by success of the communist takeover in Russia

4. the nazis

   • hitler
     • believed in the stab in the back theory
     • opposed the treaty of versailles
     • overthrow the weimar republic
   • attracted a number of supporters
   • own army
     • stormtroopers
     • brownshirts
     • SA
     • beat up opposition
       • especially the communists