The collapse of Imperial Germany

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  • The collapse of imperial germany
    • Revolutionary situation
      • shock of looming defeat
      • Wilson didn't like the kaiser so pressure for abdication grew
      • Dockworkers and soldiers join and create soviets
      • Ebert's government signs armistice 11th novemeber
    • Max von baden
      • 3rd October wrote to Wilson asking for armistice
      • Constitutional reform
        • Kaisers poweers were curtailed
        • Chancellor and government were made accountable to the reichstag
    • communist Threat
      • Spartacist uprising Jan 1919
      • Karl leibknecht and rosa luxemburg murdered
      • Crushed by freikorps (ex military group)
    • October- November 1918
      • Troops pushed back from the western front
      • German allies, Bulgaria had surrendered
      • Suffering severe economic problems

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