HSTR 350B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: German Democratic Party, German National People'S Party, Independent Social Democratic Party Of Germany
26 Sep 2017
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The national assembly and the treaty of versailles. For germany, the war is lost: armistice has been signed, the kaiser had abdicated, Not happy with the government, longing for an imagined past. 19th january 1919 first elections (national assembly) women could vote, voter turnout = 90: voter turn out stays shockingly high for the next 14 year, no matter what is going on in the country. No one party has a majority, so there going to have to be cooperation between the different parties. Kpd communist party: 0 seats (abstained), wanted a bolshevik style revolution, no communist delegates in the national assembly. Uspd independent social democratic party: 22 seats (7. 6%), poster was really badly put together, Spd social democratic party: 165 seats (39. 7%), not a majority but still, philipp. Sceidemann = first chancellor of the weimar republic: patronizing poster man leading woman forward.
