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STAGE 1
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GERMAN REVOLUTION
was a civil conflict in the German Empire at the end of the First World War that resulted in the replacement of the German federal constitutional monarchy with a democratic parliamentary republic that later became known as the Weimar Republic. -
ARMISTICE
was the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their opponent, Germany -
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
STYAGE 2
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GOVERMENT UNDER Friedrich Ebert
was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the first President of Germany from 1919 until his death in office in 1925. -
BLAMED THE JEWS
By blaming the Jews for the defeat, Hitler created a stereotypical enemy. In the 1920s and early 1930s, the defeated country was still in a major economic crisis. According to the Nazis, expelling the Jews was the solution to the problems in Germany. -
STAGE 3
THE GOLDEN YEARS -
ECONOMIC CRSIS WAS SOLVED
New coalition government under Gustav Stresemann, as chancellor and foreign minister, he is credited with rescuing the Weimar republic. -
DAWES PLAN
was a plan in 1924 that successfully resolved the issue of World War I reparations that Germany had to pay. It ended a crisis in European diplomacy following World War I and the Treaty of Versailles. -
LOCARNO PACT
were seven agreements negotiated at Locarno, Switzerland, on 5–16 October 1925 and formally signed in London on 1 December, in which the First World War Western European Allied powers and the new states of Central and Eastern Europe sought to secure the post-war territorial settlement, and return normalizing relations with the defeated German Reich (the Weimar Republic). -
KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT
is a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them". There were no mechanisms for enforcement. -
YOUNG PLAN
was a program for settling Germany's WWI reparations written in August 1929 and formally adopted in 1930. It was presented by the committee headed (1929–30) by American industrialist OwenD.Young, creator and ex-first chairman of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), who, at the time, concurrently served on the board of trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation, and also had been one of the representatives involved in a previous war-reparations restructuring arrangement the Dawes Plan.
