History Germany
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- Created on: 25-03-18 11:48
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- Political instability
- Gov seen as weak and failed to end food shortages
- Hated by communists, socialists nationalists, army leaders
- Bolshevik Revolution in Russia Ocober 1917
- Germans wanted a socialist country to be established
- Councils set up in October and November 1918
- Agreement made that army would support gov.
- Dependancy weakened gov.
- Sparticist Uprising
- Groups emerged from German Social Democratic Party
- Led by Liebknecht and Luxumberg
- Sought to establish a state with communist ideals
- December 1918
- Demonstration led to clashes with the army
- Led to 16 deaths of Sparticists
- Demonstration led to clashes with the army
- 6th January 1919
- Attempted to overthrow Ebert and Weimar gov.
- Used army and Friekorps to put down rebellion
- Attempted to overthrow Ebert and Weimar gov.
- After a few days, leaders killed
- March - Communist rising in Berlin led to 1000 deaths
- Kapp Putsch
- March 1920 - Wiemar announced reductions in army
- Wolfgang Kapp
- Planned to seize Berlin to form right wing government
- Stressed communist threat and severity of Treaty
- People told by Ebert and Sceidemann to go on strike
- Trade unionists supported gov.
- Kapp Putsch collapsed - 400 officers involved - few punished
- Other Uprisings
- Occured in Ruhr
- Hundreds were killed
- Further violence
- Left and right wings involved
- 376 murders between 1919-22
- Erzberger - Leader of the Centre Party and Rathenau - Foreign Minister
- Assasinated in 1921
- November 1923 - Putsch led by Hitler : Final threat
- Occured in Ruhr
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