The Weimar Republic
The Spartakist Uprising:
The Kapp Putsch:
The Freikorps (free Corps)
The Weimar Republic
Hyper Inflation:
- Began by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
- Turned a socialist group in a German Communist Party
- Tried to take over Berlin in January 1919
- Brutally put down by the Freikorps.
- Luxemburg and Liebknecht murdered.
The Kapp Putsch:
- In German Putsch stands for Coup d-etat
- Freikorps asked to disband
- Treaty of Versailles (100,000 army)
- Wolfgang Kapp march on Berlin in March 1920
- German workers save Weimar Republic - General strike
The Freikorps (free Corps)
- An Anti-revolutionart volunteer force
- Established by Army officers after the demobilization of the army in the conclusion of WWI
- Instrumental in putting down Spartakists and attacking Berlin a year later.
The Weimar Republic
- Democratic Government formed after WWI
- First Chancellor is Friedrich Ebert until 1925
- Many people feel the government's constitution was its downfall.
- People mad that they followed the Treaty of Versailles.
Hyper Inflation:
- Caused by: Need to pay reparations, unemployment, Refusal of workers to work in Ruhr region.
- Leads to: French occupation of Region in 1923, and New Reichsmark.
"The German Reich is a Republic, and whoever doesn't believe it gets one in the neck. "
- Alfred Döblin Subjunctive Question: How would Hitler's rise to power have been effected if the Weimar Republic had been a Communist government? If it had been a dictatorship like Russia's Communist Government, might WWII still have occurred?
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