1.2 Opposition, Control and Consent - Weimar Republic Flashcards
Exam revision
What did the Treaty of Versailles impose?
Guilt Clause 281
lost land
army limited to 100,000 troops
reparations: 132,000 million gold marks
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
Diktat - dictated peace
harsh settlement unilaterally imposed
What did the unemployed men returning from war form?
private armies
Who was dismissed, triggering the Spartacist uprising?
popular police chief in Berlin and radical USPD member Eichorn
When was Eichorn dismissed?
4 January 1919
Who united in the Spartacist uprising?
Spartacists, USPD members and union officials
What happened on 6 January 1919 in the Spartacist uprising?
thousands of armed workers took key buildings
eg. newspaper offices
What happened to the government in the Spartacist uprising and why?
Ebert moved it to the Weimar, concerned as this was how Russian Revolution started
What happened to the Spartacist uprising?
Crushed by Freikorps, leaders Liebknecht and Luxemburg executed
Which states did the communists take over and set up their own governments?
Bavaria
Saxony
Thuringia
What happened in Bavaria taken over by the communists?
put down by the army
What happened in Saxony and Thuringia taken over by the communists?
Reichsexecution - federal government removed state government and replaced by military government
Saxony: ‘troops were greeted with cheers’
Who supported the right-wing?
wealthy landowners
army
industrialists
teachers, passed beliefs on to students
When was the Kapp Putsch?
12 March 1920
Who led the Kapp Putsch?
Kapp
Luettwitz and Ehrhardt (Freikorps leaders)
Ludendorff (WW1 general)