“Was the Weimar Republic doomed from the start?”

Covers such things as:

• How did Germany emerge from defeat at the end of the First World War?

• What was the impact of the Treaty of Versailles on the Republic?

• How far was the Weimar Constitution a source of weakness?

o Why was proportional representation a weakness of the Weimar Constitution?

o Why was Article 48 a weakness of the Weimar constitution?• Political disorder, 1919–23:

o Left-wing > What did the Spartacists want to achieve?

o Right-wing > Describe what happened in the Kapp Putsch.

o Why did France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr?– Results of the Ruhr invasion > economic crises and hyper-inflation– Results of the Ruhr invasion > Hitler and the Munich Putsch• To what extent did the Republic recover in the “Streseman Era”, 1923-1928?

o Economic successes / failureso Foreign policy successes / failureso Cultural successes / failures