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GCSE MODERN WORLD HISTORY WEIMAR GERMANY INTERACTIVE 1918-1933 WHY DID THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC COLLAPSE IN 1933? History Interactive Key Stage 4 History WEIMAR GERMANY INTERACTIVE These are sample slides. There is no audio, document links or internet links. History Interactive© THE WEIMAR CONSTITUTION 5 This animation shows how Germany was governed under thewas new constitution, the Judges President elected for 7 years Weimar Constitution. A constitutionThesets army out who has power and how this power Germany under the Reichstag Weimar Republic was a was to be used. Germany needed [Parliament] democracy.a Peoples’ rights Chancellor was elected protected by what for 4 years it hadwere new constitution because changed was called the fundamental law. from a monarchy to a republic. The election system was proportional representation. Article 48 gave the President the power to rule Ministers The German parliament without or parliament. Reichstag GCSE Modern World History Weimar Germany 1918-1933 POLITICAL PROBLEMS Signing the armistice and the defeat in the First World start. War The Weimar The election system of PR and coalition Thegovernments. new republic The government was unpopular, ’November Criminals’. 6 got off to a bad government had serious political problemsProblems to dealwith with between 1919 and 1923. The German people were The Freikorps the new convinced by the army that they could have carried on fighting and lackinofthe war but the Weimar lawarmistice. and order The government had ‘stabbed Constitutionthem in the back’ by signing the Weimar government was called ‘November criminals’. Things got even worse when they POLITICAL PROBLEMS Germany The Treaty was The government signed the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919. Germans were outraged that they lost Political problems are problems to do with political hated theland and had to pay £6,600 million in reparations. They was unablethe to 10% ofand their blamed governed. They include law government how the country is problems control the Weimar government and Ebert for this. Ex-soldiers expressed their anger by was blamed. army. 1918and order, popularity of the government and to have the keeping their weapons and forming Freikorps groups. They demanded 1923 Revolts the election system. This is aRathenau. summary Kaiser back and The killed government ministersdiagram like Walther Treaty of WEIMAR GERMANY of Versailles the political against the the Weimar government problems faced by The Weimar constitution had several fundamental The voting system of government between 1918weaknesses. and 1923. proportional representation meant that small parties existed and coalition Government governments hadthey to be formed. Members of the government There oftenwere argued between ministers People showed 3 revolts to were hated the themselves. try to overthrow the assassinated government by murdering ministers. government. GCSE Modern World History Weimar Germany 1918-1933 1 3 Think about the answer yourself first. A suggested EXPLANATION answer is on When you explain, you give detail the to say why next page. 2 10 something is important or has happened. It is different from description which is saying what you see in the cartoon. For example5 the cartoonist had a reason for Dodge 7 The Transparent Germany “Help! I Drown! Throw showing Germans in the way he did. me the life-belt” Mr Lloyd George Explanation is a difficult skill. If you can do[Britain] it in and Mr Briand [France] 4 an exam you will get a high “Trygrade. standing on your feet” 6 GCSE Modern World History Weimar Germany 1918-1933