DP1 HL HI Quiz 4 - Weimar Germany

One problem of the Weimar Constitution was that the election system was based on proportional representation. This means parties gained the same percentage of seats in the _______ as the percentage of votes they polled in the elections

• League of Nations

• Congress

• Reichstag

• House of Commons

As a result of the system of proportional representation, Reichstag’s seats were widely distributed among a large number of parties. No party was ever able to gain a majority in the Reichstag, necessitating a series of (a)   governments,

Coalition governments in Weimar Germany did not last long as it proved difficult for the parties involved in them to keep working together: e.g. 1919-23 saw ____ different government coalitions

• five

• six

• seven

• eight

Another problem with the Weimar Constitution was that Article ____ of the constitution gave the President extensive right to rule by decree in times of crisis

• 37

• 48

• 238

• 234

President (a)   used the emergency powers in very controversial ways. He used Article 48 to pass decrees implementing measures that his chancellors could not get passed through the Reichstag.

One of the reasons Germans hated the Treaty of Versailles was that Germany lost about 13% of its European territory, ___% of its population and all its colonies.

• 10

• 11

• 12

• 13

One threat the Weimar faced from the Left was the _____ Uprising, January 1919, where extreme left-wing socialists) staged an uprising in Berlin.

• Berlin

• Communist

• Nazi

• Spartacist

One threat the Weimar faced from the Right was the (a)   Putsch, March 1920, where Wolfgang Kapp and General von Luttwitz attempted to overthrow the government.

When the German government failed to hand over its reparations payments in January 1923, France and Belgium decided to send 60,000 troops into the Ruhr in the ____ Ruhr Crisis.

• 1923

• 1922

• 1921

• 1920

The years of Chancellor (a)   ’s leadership ushered in a period of remarkable recovery in terms of economic growth after the crisis of hyperinflation and a period of political stability