The Weimar Republic
The Spartakist Uprising, 1919
- Began by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa luxemburg
- Turned a socialist group, Spartakists Legue into German Communist Party
- Tried to take over Berlin in January 1919
- Brutally put down by Freikorps
- Luxemburg and Liebnecht murdered
- Left Wing
- Tried to Start a communist revolution
Summary: An uprising caused by the sever left wing party that tried to start a communist revolution, but was stopped when the leaders were assassinated.
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The Kapp Putsch, 1920
- In German Putsch stands for Coup d'etat
- Friekorps are asked to disband
- Treaty of Versailles (100,000 army)
- Wolfgang Kapp march on Berlin in March 1920
- German workers save Weimar Republic
- Left wing trying to stop the right wing uprising
Summary: The Kapp Putsch was an apprising was when the Left wings went on a "general strike" to cease the Right wing party from uprising
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The Weimar Republic
- Democratic Government formed after WWI
- First chancellor is Friedrich Ebert until 1925
- Many people feel the governments constitution was it's downfall
- people mad that they followed Treaty of Versailles
- Citizens did not respect ruler
- Similarity between Old German government and Canada
- Governor General/ President elected in Old Germany
- Chancellor/ Prime minister
Summary: The Weimar Republic was democratic, people did not believe in them because they followed many principles from the treaty of Versailles
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Hyper Inflation
- Need to pay reparations
- Unemployment
- Refusal of workers to work in Ruhr region
- Reset all social classes
- Leads to:
- French Occupation of region in 1923
- Germans refused to work for French
- French brought in there own troops
- New Reichsmark
Summary: Hyper Inflation was becoming so sever people would buy a loaf of bread with a wheel barrow fill of money. They also started to burn money because the heat it could provide was more than what it was worth.