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History Revision 2019 (WW1 (Causes (Trigger Assassination of Franz…

- - - - Sparticist uprising 5 – 12 January 1919, 50,000 members of the post-World War One Communist Party, known as the Spartacists, rebelled in Berlin, led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.• The government was saved when it armed bands of ex-soldiers called friekorps,
        afterwards the communist took positions of power all over the country but they were stopped by may 1919
      - • Many Germans hated the government for signing the armistice in November 1918 - they called them the November criminals. The defeat in the war came as a surprise to the German people they that the brave German army had been ‘stabbed in the back’ by the politicians.
        • Many Germans felt their country had received a very harsh deal in the Treaty of Versailles. They hated the government for agreeing to it, even though they were forced to by the Allies.
      - The Kapp Putsch the Freikorps had saved the government, but the terms of the Treaty of Versailles meant Germany’s army had to be significantly reduced and the Freikorps had to be disbanded. 13 - 17 March 1920, as a reaction to this, the right-wing nationalist, Dr Wolfgang Kapp led a Freikorps takeover in Berlin. the normal army wouldnt help the government as they supported this so it was only stopped when the government pursaded everbody to strike