The German Revolution
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- The German Revolution
- What was it?
- The social unrest across Germany, the emperor fleeing and a new government taking over
- What caused it?
- Failure in the first world war
- Germany made a last desperate attack upon Paris. But in July the allies drove the germans back
- May 1918
- 2 million German troops died in 4 years
- Morale (confidence) was low
- Caused sense of hopelessness
- Germany made a last desperate attack upon Paris. But in July the allies drove the germans back
- Hardship the war had caused
- Allies blockading German coast
- Prevented basic supplies
- Influenza infection (August)
- Allies blockading German coast
- Failure in the first world war
- Events
- German sailors at the naval base of Wilhelmshav-en refused to follow orders to set sail
- Oct 29th
- 40,000 sailors set up a workers' and soldiers' council and took over the dockyard
- Nov 4th
- Revolts in Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck
- In Hanover, soldiers refused to control rioters
- Bavaria- thousands of workers marched on the state capital of Munich, led by Kurt Eisner
- King Ludwig III fled the country
- Nov 7th
- Eisner set up a workers and peasants' council then declared Bavaria a people's state
- Nov 8th
- Kaiser Wilhelm fled to holland
- Nov 10th
- German sailors at the naval base of Wilhelmshav-en refused to follow orders to set sail
- The effects
- The new government was able to agree an armistice. Germany had to:
- withdraw from all land won in War
- Pull troops back 30 miles inside its border with France
- surrender its munitions
- Put it's navy under allied control
- Ebert's government (social democrat party) gained control
- New rules for governing the country were agreed
- Mid 1919
- German state known as The Weimar Republic
- Mid 1919
- New rules for governing the country were agreed
- The new government was able to agree an armistice. Germany had to:
- 1918
- What was it?
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