Post-War

Question 1

Who advised the Kaiser to form a new government?

Answer 1

Ludendorff and Hindenburg

Question 2

Who was it proposed the new government be made out of?

Answer 2

Representatives of Reichstag parties

Question 3

What did this new government make Germany?

Answer 3

a democracy

Question 4

Ludendorff and Hindenburg didn’t want actually want democracy, they would have rather had a

Answer 4

constitutional monarchy

Question 5

Who was the first Chancellor?

Answer 5

Prince Max

Question 6

When did the Kaiser abdicate?

Answer 6

9th November 1918

Question 7

When was the armistice?

What also happened?

Answer 7

11th November 1918

Prince Max stood aside

Question 8

When was the revolution from below

Answer 8

November 1918

Question 9

Who ordered a last ditch attack on the British in November 1918?

Answer 9

Admiral Scheer

Question 10

What was set up when sailors refused to attack the British?

Answer 10

Kiel Mutiny

Question 11

What happened as a result of the Kiel mutiny in other cities, name some

Answer 11

Seized by soviets

e.g Hamburg, Munich

Question 12

A coalition left-wing government was formed after November 1918 led by

Answer 12

Ebert

Question 13

What did left-wing socialists think of war

Answer 13

opposed war

Question 14

What did left-wing socialists do in 1917?

Answer 14

Broke away and formed the ‘independent socialists’

Question 15

What did moderate social democrats think of war

Answer 15

support war

Question 16

Who was a group of hard line marxists who were associated with the social democrats

Answer 16

Spartacus League

Question 17

Who did the Separatists want the state controlled by?

Answer 17

Proletariat

Question 18

What did the Spartacists do in 1919?

Answer 18

Split from Independent socialists to form the KPD

Question 19

Who was the largest party in the 1912 Reichstag election

Answer 19

SPD

Question 20

What did the SPD want?

Answer 20

socialist republic

w/ parliamentary democracy

Question 21

Who proposed an election of a national assembly

Answer 21

SPD

Question 22

Who was Ebert’s government a coalition of

Answer 22

SPD and USPD

Question 23

What was the agreement that said the army would support Ebert’s government?
When was it signed?

Answer 23

Ebert-Groener Agreement

November 1918

Question 24

When did the USPD resign from Ebert’s coalition?

Answer 24

December 1918

Question 25

When did the Spartacists launch an uprising in Berlin where Luxemburg was killed?

Answer 25

January 1919

Question 26

Who quashed the Spartacists rebellion in Berlin?

Answer 26

the Free Corps and the army

Question 27

How many Free Corps helped quash the Spartacists rebellion

Answer 27

400,000