Summary Timeline 

1918 (German Revolution)
  • Spring Offensive - fails 
  • Autumn - Hindenburg line breached - Germany losing the war
  • Early November - Kiel Mutiny
  • 9 November- Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates - Germany proclaimed a Democratic Republic 
  • Power vacuum - filled by Friedrich Ebert of the SPD
  • 11 November - Armistice (Giving rise to the ‘stab-in-back’ myth + label of ‘November Criminals)
1919
  • January 5-12 - The Spartacist Uprising 
  • January 19 - Elections: Ebert becomes President 
  • June 28 - Treaty of Versailles 
1920
  • March - Kapp Putsch (Government fled to Dresden)
1921
  • May - Reparations Commission announces £6.6 billion
1922
  • December - Germany defaulted on reparations 
1923
  • ​January- France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr (Ruhr crisis)
  • Ebert calls for passive resistance 
  • Prints money to pay workers - inflation becomes hyperinflation 
  • August - Stresemann made Chancellor (+ Foreign Minister) - calls off passive resistance 
  • November 8/9 - Hitler’s Beerhall Putsch
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The Formation of the Weimar Republic 

Political Threats and Challenges - The Spartacist Uprising, 1919 

Political Threats and Challenges - The Kapp Putsch, 1920 

The Ruhr Crisis, 1923

What were the achievements of the Weimar era?

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