What Led To The Creation Of The Weimar Republic Flashcards
What happened on the 29th September 1918?
Ludendorf called for armistice negotiations
What happened on the 30th September 1918?
Kaiser promised political reform
What happened on the 1st October 1918?
Prince Max of Baden formed a new government
- Kaiser appointed him as Chancellor
- Based on majority parties in the Reichstag
What happened on the 3rd of October 1918?
Prince Max’s letter to President Wilson
-Took 3 weeks for Wilson to actually reply as he was suspicious
What happened on the 24th October 1918?
Wilson replied to Prince Max’s request
- Demanded that Germany evacuate all occupied territory, call an end to submarine warfare and fully democratise its political system
What happened on the 26th October 1918?
Ludendorf resigned and fled to Sweden
- Terms of armistice were too much for him to accept, he tried but failed to gather support for a last ditch military effort to resist before fleeing
What happened on the 28th of October 1918?
Kaiser introduced further reforms, making the Chancellor accountable to the Reichstag
What happened on the 30th October 1918?
Naval mutiny at Wilhelmshaven
- Ships were ordered to attack British ships on the English channel but the crews of two cruises refused
What happened on the 3rd November 1918?
Naval mutiny spread to Kiel
- Sailors in Kiel mutinied againdt officers and took control of the base
What happened on the 8th November 1918?
Revolt in Bavaria
- Declaration of Bavarian Socialist Republic
- Bavarian monarchy was deposed
What happened on the 9th November 1918?
Declaration of a German Republic in Berlin and abdication of the Kaiser
- Caused by a general strike and a threat to withdraw support from Prince Max’s government by the SPD
- Prince Max knew he could not run his government without SPD so he released a press statement that the Kaiser had abdicated
- Groener told Kaiser that the army would no longer fight