Weimar republic

• the politicians who signed the armistice are called the november criminals
• the kapp putsch was lead by wolffgang kapp
• the sparticist revolt took place in january 1919
• the sparticist revolt was a left wing uprising
• the sparticist revolt was lead by rosa luxembourg and karl leibknecht
• the freikorps fought off the sparticist revolt
• 100000 people went on strike in the sparticist revolt
• the sparticist revolt took over the newspaper
• the kapp putsch was in march 1920
• the freikorps took over berlin
• the freikorps were driven out of berlin by the citizens cutting off the essentials like water, electricity and transport
• the freikorps were a paramilitary group of ex-soldiers
• advantages of the weimar republic

  • democracy
  • government had power
  • bill of rights
• disadvantages of the weimar republic

  • proportional representation
  • article 48
• proportional representation is where the same % of votes you get in the election is the same % of seats you get in parliament
• freidrich ebert was the president of the weimar republic and was elected in 1919
• kaiser wilhelm II abdicated the throne and exiled to the netherlands