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― Sinclair Lewis
― Sinclair Lewis
The Spartakist Uprising, 1919
- Spartakist began by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
- Socialist group -> German Communist Party
- Getting lower classes was their goal
- Tried to take over Berlin in 1919
- Freikorps returned from WWI used forces brutally and stopped
- Luxemburg and Liebknecht were murdered
The Kapp Putsch, 1920
- Putsch - Coup d'etat
- Right wing coup tried to take the gov't
- Wolfgang Kapp marched on Berlin and because they were armed, no one stopped them
- Berlin was taken over easily
- General Strike - nothing worked in the city
- They moved out
The Freikorps (Free Corps)
- An anti-revolutionary volunteer force
- Army officers set this up as the army was limited after WWI
- puts down Spartakists and attacks Berlin a year later.
The Weimar Republic
- Reichstag (Gov't building) burned down
- Democratic Gov't formed after WWI
- Friedrich Ebert - first chancellor(head of gov't. PM in Canada) until 1925
- People were mad because they followed the Treaty of Versailles
Hyper Inflation
- Causes:
- Need to pay reparations
- Unemployment
- Refusal of workers to work in Ruhr region
- Cost of living ↑, money is worth less
- Class difference is gone because everything was so expensive
- People burnt money as fuel
- French was running the factory in Germany to get reparations paid by raw materials because they didn't want German money because it is worthless
- French used the military force to do this
- Reichsmark was made - new currency
- Dawes Plan is brought in to solve this problem
Summary
There were two revolutions against Weimar Republic, the democratic gov't formed after WWI. Spartakist(communists) uprised although was stopped by Freikorps, the anti-revolutionary volunteer force.
And Wolfgang Kapp brought in military to Berlin and takes it over easily. But general strike stopped them.
The harsh reparations caused the hyper inflation in Germany where money was worth nothing.
And Wolfgang Kapp brought in military to Berlin and takes it over easily. But general strike stopped them.
The harsh reparations caused the hyper inflation in Germany where money was worth nothing.