Good morning!
• Please sit with your country groups from
previous classes – France, Great Britain, US.
• Get out our Major Themes sheet, your notes,
and the Treaty of Versailles worksheet.
• Begin finalizing how the actual terms of the
Treaty of Versailles matched your country’s
original goals (Back of handout from last
class).
Aftermath: The Immediate
Consequence of the Treaties
GC3 - What was the impact of the
treaty on Germany up to 1923?
GC4 - Could the treaties be justified at
the time?
How did we get here?
Review
• Aims of the Big 3 after WWI
• Terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
– How did the actual treaty match the original
aims of the Big 3?
– Group Responses?
The industrial
Rhineland would be
occupied by Allied
troops for 15 years.
Germany lost Alsace, Lorraine,
north Schleswig, and the
Polish Corridor.
GC3 - What was the impact of the
treaty on Germany up to 1923?
Think…
…of a time you were treated unfairly.
How did you feel?
How did you react?
What did you do?
This cartoon appeared in the German satirical
magazine Simplissimus, 3 June 1919
What is the
message?
What are the
symbols?
The Weimar Republic
• 1919: German defeat=
new government
• Weimar Republic
• Weak; constant
attempts to overthrow
the government
• Spartacists – a
communist
revolutionary group
• Then another attempt
by communists a few
months later.
The Weimar Republic
Putting down the communist rebellions
• “Freikorps” - former
German military
(Right-wing)
• Then the Freikorps
tried to overthrow
the government
1920.
• CRAZY times in
Germany!
Weimar Republic
• Reparations – how much?
• Huuuuuuge economic
problems
• Inflation, falling behind
on reparations.
• 1923 French invade Ruhr
(coal mining, industry)
because Germany not
paying…
• Germans went on strike.
Weimar
Republic
• By 1923:
hyperinflation
• Banknotes (money)
worthless
• People lost their life
savings
• Ex: Nov 20, 1923
$4 billion German
marks - $1 US
Beer Hall Putsch
• Nov, 1923 Right Wing
attempt to overthrow
Weimar Republic
launched in Munich
• Led by Adolph Hitler
• Failure- Hitler goes to
jail
• Writes Mein Kampf
Assignment
• Paragraph Response
–Describe, in your own words, how the
Treaty of Versailles led to chaos in
Germany.
Was the Treaty of Versailles fair?
• What do the sources say?
• What do you say?