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Summary OCR A Level History Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany
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1. What was included in the treaty of Versailles?: •Germnay was only allowed
100,000 troops
•Germnay was forced to pay 6,600 million in repapriations
•Germnay had to accept the war guilt clause
•Germnay wasnt allowed go build plaves, submanrines or tanks
•Germnay was onky allowed 6 battleships
2. Was the imposition of disarmament unfair?: •yes due to Britain and France
remaining highly armed and made no future commitments to disarm
3. Was the reparations unfair?: They were totally unreasonable, it wasn't actually
stated in the treaty how much was to be paid back until the German said the black
cheque
4. Was the war guilt clause easily accepted?: •no, the Germans argued that
they client solely be accountable for the way and they argued that they fought for
defensive reasons because they were threatened by encirclement
5. What does Diktat mean?: What Germans called the treaty means "dictated to
them" no negotiation
6. Was the reparations really that harsh?: Germany still had potentially by far
the strongest economy in Europe and still had extensive industry and resources
7. Was the harsh treatment of the treaty of Versailles fair?: •Germany was not
physically occupied during the war and as a result the main damage was suffered
on foreign soil
8. What was a strength of the Weimar constitution in terms of voting ?: Men
and women over 20 could vote
9. What was proportional representation in the Weimar constitution?: •so
30% of votes= 30% of seats
Which was fair
10. How often were members of the reichstage elected in the Weimar consi-
tituion?: Every 4 years
11. What was the main weakness of the Weimar constitution in terms of
articles?: •article 48 meant that in an emergency the president can use the article
to suspend the government and makes decisions solely
12. what was an advantage of the Weimar constitution?: PR is a true democ-
racy, moved away from an autocracy to democracy
13. What happend as a result of the Weimar constitution?: •More extreme
party's for seats
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•Very unlikely to get a majority so had to reply on coalitions
•President chose the chancellor
14. What does the left wing believe in?: •More equal society
•Social reform
•communism (Spartacus league)
15. What does the right wing believe in?: •nationalists
•individuals take responsibility for themselves
(Freakorps)
16. What was the extreme left wing party?: KPD
17. What was the centre party?: ZP
18. What was the extreme right wing party?: NSDAP (nazi)
19. Why did the Spartacus uprising fail?: •not very well organised
•not well equipped compared to Freikorps
•leaders of uprising executed
20. Who crushed the majority of left wing uprisings?: Freikrops
21. Why did the government fear left wing uprisings more than right wing?-
: Because of the Russian communists
22. What was the red Bavaria?: Following the collapse of the Bavarian monarchy
the UBPD leader Eisher took political lead and was assinated on the 21st February
1919
23. What was German October?: The KPD and SPD governments had formed
coalitions but the communists went further and made military precarious for upris-
ings
•Stressmans government unfoiled the plains and the uprisings were crushed by
the army
24. Was the threat for the left as strong as the government thought?: No it
was perceived to be much more of a threat than it actually was
25. How many Freikrops were there in 1919?: 250,000
26. What was the disadvantage of the government using Freikorps?: the
government weakened their position as the Freikorps could now get involved in
right wing uprisings, as they gave them further weapons and traning
27. Who did the government work with to stop left wing uprisings ?: Freikrops
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28. Why were extreme right threats made worse by the treaty of Versailles?-
: Nationalism was the core of extreme right and after Germany's pride was deeply
damaged by the treaty made angry
29. What we're the Freikrops?: Anti republican ex soldiers, who had no respect
for the Weimar government wnd were prepared to use acts of violence to intimidate
30. What did the extreme right carry out?: Lots of political assignations 376
compared to 22 from the left
31. Was the extreme right or left the biggest threat?: Right, due to how may
assinations they carried out much more violent
32. What was the Kapp Putsch?: •right-wing nationalist, Dr Kapp, took over
Berlin, army refused to attack him
•defeated by trade unions calling a general strike which parlayed public services
33. what was the signifance of the Kapp Putsch?: >cant guarantee the support
of the army
>there was not universal support for Weimar government
>the government had limited means of dealing with uprisings
34. Why did the army refuse to right against the Kapp Putsch?: They were
fighting against ex soldiers Freikrops who they had fought with in WW1
The president left Berlin, shows seriousness of it
35. How was the Kapp Putsch stopped?: workers went on strike
36. What was the effects of the hyperinflation on prices?: Food prices were
higher than wages
As prices went up wages stayed the same
37. what was the short term effects of the Munich Putsch?: a disaster, didn't
have enough support, wasn't thought out enough
>Hitler went to prison
38. what were the long term effects of the Munich Putsch?: >allowed Hitler to
reflect on his strategies, he realised he needed to gain power legitimately
>gave Hitler the platform to gain support
39. why was the threat from the right more serious than the left Freikrops?: -
the Freikorps were trained and armed soldiers and the army refused to fight against
them
40. why was the threat from the right more serious than the left to do with
the judicray?: out of the 376 right wing assiassins only 28 were found guilty and
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