Weimar Uprisings

Question 1

What was the Bavarian republic?

Answer 1

• Left never gave up hope of radical government in which working class governed
• March 1919 Soviet republic declared in Bavaria, worker councils and battalions of Red Guards established and committed to protecting worker rights
• May 1919 crushed by Freikorps

Question 2

What did the failed Bavarian republic prove about the Weimar Republic

Answer 2

• The left was divided
• The government had support of the army
• Industrialists still had power over workers

Question 3

What was the Kapp Putsch?

Answer 3

• the freikorps led by dr Kapp marched to Berlin
• weimar ministers fled
• government told trade unions to strike and cause chaos
• kapp couldn’t keep control
• kapp fled berlin and ministers returned

Question 3

What did the beer hall putsch prove

Answer 3

The political right was divided

• The army supported the government against “upstart extremists”
• High ranking figures were openly disloyal to the Government - Lundendorff

Question 4

What did the kapp putsch prove about the Weimar Republic

Answer 4

• The judiciary still was conservative
• The working class supported the government
• The army supported nationalism rather than serve the government - disloyal army

Question 5

What happened in the beer hall putsch

Answer 5

Hitler and his fellow Nazis attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic and institute a single-party totalitarian regime

Question 6

What did the beer hall putsch prove