Notes
SPARTAKIST UPRISING
- Began by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
- Turned a socialist group, Spartakists League into German Communist Party
- Tried to take over Berlin in January 1919
- Brutally put down by the Freikorps
- Luxemburg and Liebknecht murdered
KAPP PUTSCH
- In German Putsch stands for Coup d’etat
- Freikorps are asked to disband
- Treaty of Versailles (100,000 army)
- Wolfgang Kapp march on Berlin in March 1920
- German workers save Weimar Republic - general strike
Summary
Weimar is a capitalist town where the capital was moved to after WWI. A republic country is a country without a monarch. Had to go through challenges including The Spartakist Uprising and the Kapp Putsch.
Quotes
“Some commentators have drawn such a stark and gloomy picture of the [Weimar Republic's] early difficulties that the Republic seems foredoomed to failure from the outset… The conditions in which Weimar democracy were born were certainly not such as to help it flourish; and as it unfolded, it was clearly saddled with a burden of problems, in a range of areas.” - Mary Fulbrooke
Subjunctive Questions
What would of happened to Germany if the Weimar Republic wouldnt of happened?