Timeline

Question 1

9th November 1918

Answer 1

Kaiser visits army headquarters in spa.
Ministers tried to persuade the Kaiser to abdicate, He refuses.
Army officers refuse to support the Kaiser.
Kaiser has no option but to abdicate.
Scheidemann declares the new republic.

Question 2

10th November 1918

Answer 2

Kaiser flees to neutral Holland.

Ebert suspends the old Reichstag and formed the Council of People’s Representatives.

Question 3

11th November 1918

Answer 3

The armistice is signed ending WWI.

Question 4

31st July 1919

Answer 4

New democratic government was established in a new constitution.

Question 5

28th June 1919

Answer 5

Treaty of Versailles signed

Question 6

5th January 1919

Answer 6

The Spartacist uprising began in Berlin

Question 7

12th January 1919

Answer 7

The Spartacist uprising is subdued in Berlin

Question 8

15th January 1919

Answer 8

Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemborg are executed by the Freikorps

Question 9

13th March 1920

Answer 9

Kapp Putsch begins in Berlin

Question 10

17th March 1920

Answer 10

Kapp Putsch ends due to the capital being effectively paralyzed