The Waimar Republic

Germany

Was in a state of Chaos

Allies offered peace

Strict conditions

Germany should became
more democratic

Kaiser refused

Bavaria declared
independent
Socialist Republic

Sailors took
over the town
of kiel

Socialists led uprisings
of workers and soldiers

9 November 1918
Kaiser abdicated

Left Germany
for the Netherlands

Following day

Signed an armistice
with the allies

Ftiedrich Ebert became
The New Leader of The
Republic Of Germany

Had opposition of
Right and Left

Left Wing

Communists

Believed in a
Communist Revolution as
in Russia

Right Wing

Hoped for
Kaiser´s return

Remained in

Industry

Civil Service

Judiciary

Army

Kaiser´s advicers

The Republic
gave

Freedom of speech

Freedom of
Workshop

Better working
conditions

Under Stresmann
(1923-1929)

Achievments

Foreign Policy

He signed the
Locarno Treathies

to guarantee the
Western borders

In 1926

Germany was accepted
in the League of Nations

He tried to reverse
some of the terms

Of the Treaty
of Versailles

Negotioted the Young Plan

Remove French and
Belgium troops from
the Rhineland.

Culture

Writers and poets
fluorished

Artists produced
powerful paintings

Architects created new
and exciting buildings

Golden age for
German Cinema

Berlin daring and
liberated nightlife

The Economy

He had wide support

Reparations were spread all
over a longer period

By 1927 it seemed to have
recovered very well

In 1928 finally achieved the some
levels of production as before the war

Reparations were being paid and
exports were on the increase

Politics

Became more stable

The Republic was begining
to settle and German people
were becoming reconciled to
the way things are

Problems

Foreign Policy

Nationalists attacked him
for joining The League
of Nations

Anf for signing
The Locarno Oact

Communists also attacked
Locarno, as part of the plot
against communism in the USSR

Culture

In German villages and
country towns

The Culture of the city seemed to
represent a moral decline

Wandervogel wantedd to return
to simple contry values, wanted
more help in the Countryside.

Economy

Economy boom
was precarious

Main winners, big bussinesses
wich controlled half of
Germany´s production

Other winners, big landowners
if they owned land in towns

Workers also gained (most
goverments approved un
ions which led to improved pay
and conditions)

Main losers, peasant farmers and
middle classes peasants increased
production during war, they were
over producing

Politics

Nazis and Communists were
building they Party Organizations

They were 4
different chancellors

30 percent of the votes
went to parties opposed
to the Republic

In 1926 a president was
opposed to Democracy and
wrote to the Kaiser for approval