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leader of the Social Democratic Party and the first president of the Weimar
Republic
2.
3. Drs Bell and Muller
4. the Social Democratic Party
5. the German people had been confident of winning WW1 and the surrender took
the German people by surprise
6. Germany lost 1/7th of her area; 1/10th of her population; military and naval
provisions stated that the German army would be reduced to a max of 100 000
men; the war guilt clause meant that Germany would have to pay more than 7000
million; they weren’t allowed an air force; no submarines were allowed in the
navy, no heavy artillery so Germany was left weak and defenseless
7. They wanted to make sure that Germany could never be a threat to the allies
again, and they needed someone to pay for the reparations since the war had left
the world in a great depression
8. they had become used to semi-autocratic government under Bismarck since 1871;
they saw the democratic constitution as work of the allies and thus it gained no
respect from the German people; the political parties had little experience of how
to operate within a democratic system and they were, thus, ineffective in gaining
the approval of the German people
9. the treaty of Rapallo
10. army was limited to 100 000 men, no conscription and no heavy artillery
11. where the number of seats a party wins in parliament is worked out as a
proportion of the number of votes they won
12. no party was strong enough to form a government on its own and therefore
coalitions were created which led to a weak government
13. they were German Socialist extremists, formed in 1918, led by Karl Leibnecht
14. independent volunteer regiments]
15. he wanted to take over Berlin and form another government since he was
unsatisfied with the present one
16. the Nazi Party
17. to refuse to accept the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles and to create a
strong central government in Germany
18. the Munich Putsch led by the Nazis and Hitler was arrested for high treason
19. the putsch was a failure but Hitler used his arrest as publicity for the Nazi Party
20. Gustav Stresemann
21. -e accepted the Dawes Plan and introduced a new German Mark, the Rentenmark
to stabilize the currency
-won Nobel Peace Prize for his agreement to the Larcarno Settlement where
western borders of Germany were agreed
-joined the League of Nations
-the young plan came into action, where reparations were reduced by ¼ of the
amount and Germany was given 58 years to pay
22. Hitler’s greatly enlarged personal bodyguard led by Heinrich Himmler
23. ???
 24. red-social aims of the party to improve conditions of the poor, white-nationalist
aims to make Germany great, black- Hitler’s belief in the racial superiority of the
Aryans
25. at this stage, very few people were interested in the Nazi Party
26. Joseph Goebbels
27. Communists were left wing and the Nazis were right wing
28. national Hero and president of Germany
29. 10 august 1934
30. a dutch communist who was arrested for the crime of burning the Reichstag
Building down.
31. Hitler convinced Von Hindenburg to pass the law for the Protection of the People
and the state thus, Hitler was able to crush most organised opposition to him. And he had
convinced the German people that he had saved them from Communist Terror
32. 27 February 1933
33. it voted away the power of Parliament for four years and gave Hitler the right to
make all laws. This meant that Germany would now be a one-party state and thus
totalitarian
34. leader of the SA
35. Hitler saw that the SA no longer suited his respectable Government and were an
embarrassment to him; Hitler suspected that Rohm was too ambitious and may attempt to
overthrow Hitler; in order for Hitler to build up his army, he needed the support of the
army leaders, who hated Rohm thus they would not assist in Hitler’s military plans until
the SA was disbanded