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Nazi Germany Revision (How did Germany emerge from defeat in World War…

- - - - For this reason the Weimar Goverment signed an armistice on November 11th 1918
        
        Nationalists called the politicians who singed the armistice called them the November criminals as they said they had stabbed them in the back
- - - - Positives:
        Increased representation
        Divided power so that everyone had equal power
        It was democratic and ensured the representatives could be removed
        
        Increased representation
        Women were allowed to vote as well as men
        The voting age was reduced from 25 to 21
        A system of proportional representation was used which meant that the smallest parties still had a fair share of the seats in the Reichstag.
        
        It divided power so no single part of government had too much power
        There was a good balance between a strong central government and regional power
        The Reichsrat could delay new laws and control the power of the Reichstag
        
        It was democratic and ensured the representatives could be removed
        The President would be elected every seven years - this provided some stability but also meant that he would not always be in permanent control.
        Elections for the Reichstag and Reichsrat would take place every four years
- - - - The government was often too weak to rule effectively
        The President often had to intervene. Using Article 48 of the Constitution, he would pass emergency laws without asking the Reichstag. This seemed to be undemocratic and weakened the Weimar government
- - - - Many saw the treaty humiliating. It was seen as a dictated peace. Many German people did not believe that their army had actually lost the war and thought that they could continue. They claimed that the army had been betrayed by politicians when Germany surrendered. They believed in the Dolchstoss Theory, that the nation had been “stabbed in the back”