Strengths And Weaknesses Of The Weimar Republic

A long time ago, in a destroyed and broken wasteland a fresh new government called the “Weimar Republic” was born. After WWI Germany had lost to the allies, the Kaiser didn’t know what to do at the time. The Kaiser abdicated and left a whole country and told the people of the country to make a better world for their people. Germany was no longer under a dictatorship, it was a democracy led by a president. The Weimar Republic had many weaknesses and downfalls that may have been significant or may not. The Weimar Republic had failed many times and it caused many troubles, therefore the weaknesses of Weimar were not significant. This research paper is worth reading because the research has taken more than 4 weeks to make. Many research has been …show more content…
So how did this treaty actually affect the Weimar republic. First of all the treaty of versailles was to harsh on to Weimar Republic. For example, the treaty made Germany pay for the reparations of the war. The league agreed to 6.6 million dollars that Germany had to pay. Article 231 meant that Germany had to take all of the blame for WWI. So German leaders were embarrassed of all their people in Germany. The treaty also took many of Germany’s original land, also reduced army to 100,000 and took away navy for good. Not only land they took, but with that they took 12.5% of Germany’s population. So they are really affecting German by taking their people. Most of Germany’s valuables were also taken away, like 2.16% of all of their coal. They were completely lost because of the valuable that the treaty has taken away. Also 3.48% of their iron industry was taken away. So the ToV was really harsh because of all this factors about …show more content…
The notes were researched in many different sources, like bitesize, john d clare, slideshare.net, and many more. So the essay is full of facts about Weimar republic and it looks like it was worth reading. These were the points in case you forgot. First of all , how the treaty of versailles affected the weimar republic. The origins, how effective the weimar republic constitution was, how the successes of the stresemann era lead to failure to the weimar republic, how the great depression affected the weimar republic, how did the germans feel about the weimar republic, and finally what was the leadership weak. This points are going to show the Weimar weaknesses. So my thoughts towards this essay was that the Weimar republic had a disadvantage from the start. It was a wasteland and the economy was broke. The kaiser left the country and the New Republic had many weaknesses, and it was simply not stable. So I think the Weaknesses were not significant at all because all the weaknesses were not helpful towards anything. So I wish you would think the same way