The Liberal experiment- Threat from the left & right and response Flashcards
How did it question the stability and legitimacy
What did the unemployment rate of January 1919 rise to?
250,000 unemployed
What happened in the Spartacist uprising in January 1919?
- Demonstration Berlin.
- Due to dismissal of Berlin police Chief Emile Eichhorn, member of USPD supporter of radical left.
- Key buildings seized- railway office & socialist newspapers
What happened to the government because of Spartacist uprising?
Revolutionary committee declared Ebert government deposed.
Parties of the Left- What party was the SPD. What did they support?
Social Democratic Party
Supported middle class
moderate party of the left
Parties of the Left- What Party was the KPD?
What did they support?
German Communist Party
Extreme Left, communist
Parties of the left- What party was the USPD?
What did they support?
Independent social democratic party
Radical socialist party
Parties of the Right- What party was the DVP?
What did they support?
German Peoples Party
Moderately conservative, democratic, anti-socialist
Parties of the Right- What party was the DNVP?
What did they support?
German National Peoples Party
Conservative, anti-republican, anti-maxist, anti-democratic, supported the monarchy.
Parties of the Centre- What party was the DPP?
What did they support?
German Democratic Party
Committed to reform, left + right, moderate
What did the center party support?
Broad middle class backing, democratic =, defender of the Roman Catholic church.
Threats from the left- What Spartakubund demonstration broke out in January 1919?
What happened?
Dismissal of Berlin Police Chief Emile Eichorn USPD supporter of the radical left.
Key buildings seized, railway & socialist newspaper
declared Ebert Government deposed?
Who were the Spartakusbund?
Who were their leaders?
The Spartacist league
led by Karl Liebknecht & Rosa Luxemburg
Threat from the right- What happened in the 1919 Kapp Putsch?
Freikorps encouraged 12,000 troops march on Berlin and seize capital.
Threat from the right- What did the Kapp Putsch expose?
Exposed weakness of gov, forced to flee
revealed power of German army+ sympatheic of leadership
revealed “state within a state”
Threat from the right- What was the date of the Kapp Putsch?
3th March 1920
