Opposition Control and Consent Flashcards
When was the KDP set up?
December 1918
What were the friekorps?
A private army made up of ex soldiers, unemployed youths and other discontents lead by ex officers and other former military personnel. They first formed in December 1918
What were many Germans afraid of?
The red plague of communism spreading from Russia
What specific units did the friekorps have?
Units specially recruited to fight in the East against a possible communist invasion
What caused the sparticist revolt?
KPD meetings were coming under attack ot private armies of other political parties
When did the spartacist revolt breaks out?
January 1919
Where was the spartacist revolt and what did this mean for the goverment?
It broke out in Berlin so Eberts goverment was forced to move to Weimar to escape the violence
How did the spartacist revolt end?
The friekorps were asked to deal with the revolt. The leaders Liebknecht and Luxemburg were captured beaten then murdered and the rising collapsed
Why did so many political parties have their own private armies?
Returning soldiers were unemployed and bitter about the signing of the armistice so refused to return their military equipment
Between 1919 and 1922 how many political murders were there in Germany ?
376
How many politcal murders were by right winged groups?
356
What was one of the reasons that Germans were so angry about the treaty of Versialles that wasn’t actually about its content?
There had been tons of misinformed throughout the war so Germans did not really no how badly they were doing in the war. They believed the ideas put forward in newspapers that of the Weimar goverment had not been cowardly and betrayed the country they could have won the war.
Why did the Dawes plan and the Young plan not fix the issue of Germans being angry at the reparations?
They still existed and this caused anger.
What sparked the spartacist revolt?
On the 4th of January the government had dismissed a popular police chief who was a radical USPD member. This brought the goverment into conflict with the workers councils.
What were some left winged tactics of opposition during the early weimar period?
It included attempts to take over individual German states and establish communist goverments, for example happening once in saxons in 1921
Why was respect for the weimar goverment not really passed onto young people?
People in the teaching profession’s were usually of a more right winged background and the goverment did not do anything to try and convince teachers of the weimar constitusion so they never passed it on to their students.
Who was the leader of the kappa putsch?
Wolfgang Kapp and other friekorps leaders.
What figure was the putsch supported by?
Eric Ludendorff who had been a general in the first world war.
What happened on the 12th of March 1920?
The friekorps took over Berlin and the goverment fled.
How did the army respond to the friekorps?
Most of them did not join the putsch but they would not fight them either.
What happened when the goverment fled Berlin?
The leaders proclaimed themselves the new goverment, dissolved the national assembly and said that the weimar constitusion was no longer in force.
How was the putsch resolved?
Trade unions demanded a general strike, demanding an end to the putsch and a new government with the Spd in power. The general strike was almost universal and 4 days after the strike began the putsch fell.
What happened to the leaders of the Kapp putsch?
Kapp died in prison awaiting trial and the other ring leaders were given short prison sentences.
What was Hitlers Munich Putsch inspired by?
Mussolinis march on Rome which had also been in 1922