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- - - - vaccine was cow pox to cure small box
- - - - lead to the liberal reforms
- - - - lord chamberlaine
      - robert dudley
- - - - MQS was exicuted after this plot
- - - - In January 1919, the German communist party (the Spartacists)
        decided that they wanted to take over Germany from Ebert
      - They started a revolution attempt on 6th
        January. It was not successful. In a week,
        Ebert with the help of his Freikorps (ex-WWI soldiers paid
        to help the government keep order) had stopped the
        rebellion and killed many communists. The Spartacist
        leaders, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebnecht, were
        murdered.
      - It was helpful for Ebert that the Spartacists were no longer
        a threat. However, he had to rely on the Freikorps to keep
        order – that made him look weak to the public, and it was risky as the Freikorps
        could turn on him at any point.
      - The German communists continued to create riots around Germany, even after the
        Spartacist Revolution failed. Freikorps had to be sent round to fight them and
        stop them.
  - - - the Chancellor would be head of the Reichstag and would be voted for every 4
        years,
      - There would be a President who would choose the Chancellor and keep control of
        the army and he would be voted for every 7 years
      - everyone over the age of 20 could vote, people voted for MPs who would sit in the Reichstag, the Reichstag would suggest and vote on new laws,
      - Germany would use a system called Proportional Representation; this means each
        political party would get a fair share of the seats in the Reichstag – if a party won
        10% of the votes they would get 10% of the seats.
      - Proportional Representation seemed fair but had lots of problems; there was so
        many parties in the Reichstag that no party ever had a majority (over 50% of the
        seats) so they couldn’t pass laws by themselves. This meant parties had to make
        deals with each other and this slowed the whole process down. It also helps
        Hitler get into power later.
    - - Very fair, particularly the voting
      - Allowed lots of people to have their
        say
      - State governments would ensure local
        issues were addressed
      - Wouldn’t allow one person to take over
        – the Chancellor and President
        balanced each other
      - A poor Chancellor or President would
        only be around for a limited time
    - - Proportional Representation meant
        that there were loads of different
        parties in the Reichstag – it was
        difficult to get them to agree on
        anything
      - Article 48 could be abused so that the
        President stopped listening to the
        Reichstag
      - State governments could pass laws
        that went against what the Reichstag
        wanted
  - - - Blame – Germany had to accept responsibility for starting the war
        and causing all the damage. This is called the War Guilt clause.
      - Reparations – Germany had to pay £6.6 billion to pay to repair the
        damage caused by the war
      - Armed Forces – the Germany army was reduced to 100,000 men, and they couldn’t
        have any tanks, submarines or planes. The Rhineland (an area of Germany that
        borders France) was also demilitarised so no German troops could go there.
      - Territory – Germany lost 13% of their land and 12.5% of their population. They
        also lost all their colonies so they no longer had an empire. Germany was also
        forbidden to join with Austria. Some of the land they lost was industrial land with
        coal mines etc on; this meant they lost a way to produce income for Germany.
      - The Germans were outraged. They
        called the Treaty a “diktat” (dictated
        peace) and accused the Weimar
        Government of “stabbing them in the
        back” by agreeing to such harsh
        terms. People began to look to other
        politicians to rule Germany better
        than the Social Democrats.