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Problems the Weimar Republic Faced
2) Political Problems
- Attempts to overthrow the Weimar
Government
- LEFT WING
- Spartacist Revolt 1919
- Communists tried to take power because
they felt the the Weimar Republic did not
serve the interests of the workers
- Led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl
Liebknecht
- Spartacists attempt to take power by seizing all main points of
communication in Berlin, eg. Post Office+Telecommunications
building on 5th January 1919
- Weimar Republic enlisted help of Freikorps
(ex-servicemen) to suppress the revolution. They also
shot both Communist Leaders
- Communists tried to take power because
they felt the the Weimar Republic did not
serve the interests of the workers
- Soviet-Bavarian Government
- Soviet style communist government was
set up in Bavaria in 1919
- This was also overthrown by
the Freikorps
- Soviet style communist government was
set up in Bavaria in 1919
- Spartacist Revolt 1919
- RIGHT WING
- Kapp Putsch
- March 1920
- Nationalist attempt to take power because they blamed
the Weimar Government for the loss of WW1 and
wanted a strong leader like the Kaiser had been
- Led by Wolfgang Kapp and
ex-army general Ludendorff
- Reaction to reduction of armed
forces in Treaty of Versailles
- Tried to take control in Berlin
- The workers that support the
Weimar Government went on
strike to suppress the revolt
- March 1920
- Munich
Putsch
- On 8th November 1923
Hitler marched into a beer
hall and claimed the
revolution had begun
- Led by Adolf
Hitler and
General
Ludendorff
- They attempted to take seize power
by taking control of the government
in Bavaria then marching to Berlin
- In response to the French occupation of the Ruhr
- On 8th November 1923
Hitler marched into a beer
hall and claimed the
revolution had begun
- Kapp Putsch
- LEFT WING
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