Weimar Republic

4. Ex-soldiers who formed right-wing armed groups after World War I
6. A violent attempt to overthrow the government, such as the Kapp Putsch in 1920
8. The German leader who helped stabilize the economy and improve foreign relations
9. Communist revolutionaries who tried to take control in Berlin in 1919
11. Clause 48 of the constitution that allowed the President to rule by decree
13. When a ruler gives up power or the throne, as the Kaiser did in 1918
14. The 1924 plan that restructured reparations and brought American loans

1. The German parliament elected by the people during the Weimar period
2. The payments Germany was forced to make to the Allies after the war
3. When prices rise quickly and money loses its value, as in Germany in 1923
5. The industrial region occupied by France and Belgium in 1923 after missed payments
7. The democratic government of Germany set up in 1918 after the Kaiser’s abdication
10. The new currency introduced in 1923 to end hyperinflation
11. The agreement that ended the fighting in World War I in November 1918
12. The 1925 agreements improving relations between Germany and Western Europe