| A | B |
|---|
| spartacists | group that proclaimed a German Soviet Socialist Republic in 1918 |
| Munich | place of an unsuccessful putsch in 1923 |
| Kapp Putsch | attempt at counter revolution to overthrow Weimar Government in 1920 |
| Berlin | place where 400,000 metal workers went on strike in 1917 |
| Prince Max von Baden | Chancellor in October 1918 |
| hyperinflation | extreme inflation in Germany 1922 |
| KPD | German Communist Party |
| Rosa Luxemberg | leader of KPD |
| 1932 | year of the 3 chancellors: Bruning, von Papen, Schliercher |
| Ebert | First President of the Weimar Republic |
| Centre Party | Catholic, middle class political party |
| Hindenburg | President of Weimar Republic from 1925 to 1933 |
| Gustav Stresemann | leader of the Populist Party and Chancellor Aug - Nov 1923 |
| Rhineland | demilitarised area in lower Germany |
| Young Plan | plan put forward in 1929 to help cut reparations for Germany |
| Dawes Plan | plan to help rebuild German industry with US financing |
| SPD | German Social Democrat Party |
| Reichstag | German parliament |
| Muller | Chancellor in 1927 |
| putsch | revolt or uprising against a government |
| Bismarck | Prussian Chief Minister and unifier of Germany |
| demobilisation | releasing men from armed service |
| Ruhr | coalmining area that the French occupied in 1923 |
| Haase | leadaer of the Independent Socialist Party |
| reparations | payments made by the side that lost in a war |
| Friekorps | volunteer anticommunist army |
| Reichswehr | German army |
| Erzberger | supporter of peace during WWI and Secretary of State |
