| A | B |
|---|
| Bismarck | Prussian chief minister and unifier of Germany |
| Chancellor | position held by Prince Max von Baden in October 1918 |
| Ebert | First President of the Weimar Republic and leader of the Social Democratic Party SPD |
| Socialism | public ownership of the means of production |
| Berlin | place where 400,000 metal workers went on strike in 1917 |
| Scheidemann | cabinet member who proclaimed a German Republic when Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated |
| Spartacists | group that proclaimed a German Soviet Socialist Republic when Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated in 1918 |
| strikes | the way the workers', soldiers' & sailors' councils helped Ebert restore order and defeat the Spartacists |
| Erzberger | supporter of peace through WWI and Secretary of State; he signed the Treaty of Versailles for Germany |
| Friekorps | volunteer anticommunist army; used by Ebert to put down the Sparticist uprising in 1919 |
| Weimar | place in central Germany where the new democratic and liberal constitution was born |
| Article 48 | section of the Weimar Constitution that gave emergency power to the Chancellor |
| Centre Party | the Catholic, middle class political party in Weimar Germany |
| Populists | wealthy middle class party that favoured private enterprise |
| Democratic Party | liberal, middle class and intellectuals opposed to the monarchy |
| SPD | Social Democratic Party - held a majority of seats in the Weimar parliament |
| Kapp Putsch | attempt at counter revolution to overthrow the Weimar government in March 1920 |
| Ruhr | coalmining area that the French occupy in 1923 |
| passive resistance | action taken by coalminers in the Ruhr region when occupied by France in 1923 |
| Haase | leader of the Independent Socialist Party USPD |
| KPD | communist party led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht |
| hyperinflation | extreme inflation in Germany 1922 - 1923; almost destroyed the economy |
| Hindenburg | President of Weimar Republic from 1925 to his death in 1933 |
| Stresemann | leader of the Populist party; Chancellor Aug - Nov 1923; received Nobel Peace Prize in 1926 |
| coalition | government formed by two or more parties supporting each other; SPD and Centre Party in 1919 |
| Reichstag | German parliament |
| Reichswehr | German army |
| demobilisation | releasing men from armed service |
| proportional | type of parliamentary representation whereby political parties gain seats according to the votes they get |
| reparations | payments made by the side that loses in a war to countries or individuals that have suffered losses |
| putsch | revolt or uprising against a government |
| Schleswig | area of Germany that was given to Denmark as part of the Treaty of Versailles |
| Rhineland | area in lower Germany to be demilitarized and occupied |
| Posen | area in north west Germany, together with part of East Prussia and Upper Silesia that was given to Poland |
| Munich | place of an unsuccessful putsch in 1923 resulting in the imprisonment of Hitler |
| Muller | Chancellor in 1927 |
| Young Plan | a plan put forward in 1929 to help cut reparation payments for Germany |
| Dawes Plan | plan financed by the US to help rebuild German industry in 1924 |
| Junker | Prussian aristocrats - opponents of the Weimar Republic |
| Locano | Treaty signed with France in 1925 that forced Germany to accept the borders imposed by the Peace Treaty |
| 1932 | year of three Chancellors: Bruning, von Papen, Schleicher |
