germany after ww1-novermber

• The end of WWI

  November 1918
• Germany's state at the end of WWI

  • Blockade led to lack of food and supplies
  • People were starving
  • Riots were breaking out
  • Navy had mutinied against the Kaiser
• Abdicated


  Quit his job
• Germany was left without a leader and in a mess
• Social Democrats


  The biggest political party in Germany
• Friedrich Ebert


  Leader of the Social Democrats, took on the job of running Germany
• Ebert's actions


  • Tried to improve people's lives by giving them better working conditions and freedom of speech
  • Signed the armistice and withdrew Germany from WW1 in November 1918
• Friedrich Ebert


  The leader of Germany's largest political party (the SPD), took the Kaiser's place as leader of Germany, on a temporary basis
• He promised to hold elections soon. If ordinary German people wanted him as their leader, they would get the chance to vote for him if they wished.
• Meanwhile, he gave the people what they really wanted


  An end to the war
• Germany surrendered: the First World War was over

  11 November 1918