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Flashcards by Emily Tisch, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Emily Tisch
almost 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What did the Government announce they had plans to do in 1920 that caused uproar? | Reduce the size of the army and disband the Freikorps. |
| Who was the leader of the Freikorps and what did he do? | Erhdhart and he refused to co-operate. |
| Who joined with Erhdhart? | A leading right-wing politician called Wolfgang Kapp. |
| What were Erhdhart and Kapp's plan? | Seize Berlin to form a new right-wing government with Kapp as Chancellor and reinstate the Kaiser. |
| From where else did the rebels gain support? | The German army : Reichswher |
| What was the name of the General of the Reichswher? | General Luttwitz |
| When was Berlin successfully seized? | 20th March 1920 |
| Where did the Weimar Government move to when Berlin was seized? | Dresden and then Struttgart. |
| What did Ebert originally decide to do in order put down the rebellion? | Asked the Reichswehr. |
| What did the commander-in-chief of the army famously say when asked to attack the Freikorps and what was his name? | Commander-in-chief von Seekt said: 'The Reichswher does not fire on Reichswher'. |
| What does this quote mean about the army and Freikorps? | The Freikorps is made up of the soldiers who where let go from the army when the treaty of Versailles restricted the size. |
| What did Ebert and Schniedemann do instead? | They called on the people of Berlin to not support the Kapp Putsch and asked them to strike. |
| Why was there little support for the Kapp Putsch? | Trade unionists and civil servants supported the government as they were more left wing. |
| What is a trade unionist? | A person involved with organisations set up to protect and improve the rights of workers. |
| What happened when the trade unionists went on strike? | Essential services like water, gas, electricity and transport stopped and Berlin ground to a halt. |
| What did Kapp do with no essential services? | He fled after realising that he couldn't govern. He was caught and eventually died in prison. |
| How was this method of putting down the Kapp Putsch different to the Spartacist Uprsing? | This was non-violent. |
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