GERMANY

The birth of the Weimar

Republic

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 German history 1918-1933

-Kapp Putsch Hitler German

End of fails writes elections Hitler
Start of
’Mein (Nazis, becomes
WW1 Nuremburg
-The Nazi Kampf’ 18,3% Chancellor
Party formed rallies votes)
1918 1930 1933
1920 1924 1927

1919 1926 1929

-Weimar Republic
1923 1932
established Hitler Youth Global
-Munich German
formed depression
Putsch fails elections
-Treaty of Versailles (Nazis,
signed -Hyperinflation 37,4%
votes)
-The Germans
Workers’ Party 2
formed
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World War I Armistice

Allied and German officials at the
signing of the armistice that ended the
fighting in World War I, November 11,
1918.
(Source: https://www.britannica.com/place/Weimar-Republic)
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 After centuries of being an authoritarian state, in 1919 a democratic government
was formed in Germany. Why?

Defeated
in WW1 Led by
Friedrich
Ebert

Germany 1918 On 9
A new
November so government Germany
the Kaiser was formed was no
abdicated longer an
empire
but a
republic

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 So, in 1919…

Germany Elections
were held
1919

New Republic Constitution

government
• F. Ebert, • Germany • The new
was elected became a constitution
president republic gave people
freedom of
• The new speech,
government freedom of
was called worship and
Weimar better
Republic. working
conditions. 5
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Friedrich Ebert
German politician of the Social
Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
He was president of Germany from
1919 till his death in 1925.
(source: https://www.britannica.com/place/Weimar-Republic)
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 Was the Weimar Republic doomed from the start?
The democratic Weimar government collapsed in 1933 and was replaced by a Nazi dictatorship.
Some people suggest that this was inevitable because of the problems Germany faced after WW1,
such as:

Impact of the
Impact of the Political Treaty of
WW1 opposition to the Versailles
-economic Republic -culpability clause
-social
-Opposition from the left wing
-loss of territory
-political
-Opposition from the right wing
-reparations
-reduced armed forces

Big economic
problems Foreign Influence
Political instability
-the foreign occupation of the -German reject of Versailles
Ruhr -the building of the Nazi Party Treaty and Locarno Treaties.
-Hyperinflation -some German rejected foreign
-economic dependence on culture influencing their country.
foreign loans
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