Tags & Description
9th November 1918
Kaiser fled
10th November 1918
‘Republic’ - Ebert
11 November 1918
Armistice (stab in the back) signed by Ebert
November 1918
council of people’s representatives - Ebert in charge - temporary
19th January 1919
voting → Ebert chancellor (voted in)
1919 (three points - general)
Weimar republic + consitution
SDP in power
democracy
5th January 1919
Sparticist uprising began
15th January 1919
Rosa Luxemburg killed
sparticists
extreme left wing
June 1919
Treaty of versailles
March 1920
Kapp Putsch
Wolfganag Kapp
Freikorps
Extreme right wing
6th June 1920
elections → showed less support for moderate political parties
1923 (crisis year - three things)
crisis year:
invasion of the Ruhr Valley → France occupied Germany and took industrial products as Germany could not pay them back
hyper inflation → they printed more money to pay striking workers and cover costs making the value of the mark very low causing hyperinflation
Beer Hallputsch
November 1923
Rentenmark introduced by Stresemann
1924 (plan)
Dawes plan
1929 (plan)
Young plan
1925 (pact - Stresemann to improve international relations)
The Lorcano pact
1926 (Stresemann to improve international relations)
League of Nations
1928 (pact - Stresemann to improve international relations)
Kellog-Brian pact
1929 (early october)
Stresemann dies (2 weeks before crash)
1929 (later October)
Great Depression