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- Democratic government formed after WWI
- First chancellor is Friedrich Ebert (1920-1925)
- Many people feel the government's constitution was its downfall
- People were mad that they followed Treaty of Versailles
- Began by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
- Turned a socialist group, Spartakists League into German Communist Party
- Tried to take over Berlin in January 1919
- Brutally put down by the Freikorps
- Luxemburg and Liebknecht murdered.
- In German Putsch stands for Coup d'etat
- Friekorps are asked to disband
- Treaty of Versailles (100000 army)
- First chancellor is Friedrich Ebert (1920-1925)
- Many people feel the government's constitution was its downfall
- People were mad that they followed Treaty of Versailles
- Began by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
- Turned a socialist group, Spartakists League into German Communist Party
- Tried to take over Berlin in January 1919
- Brutally put down by the Freikorps
- Luxemburg and Liebknecht murdered.
- In German Putsch stands for Coup d'etat
- Friekorps are asked to disband
- Treaty of Versailles (100000 army)
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The Weimar Republic was the democratic government that Germany had formed after WWI