The Spartakist Uprising, 1919
- 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
The Kapp Putsch, 1920
- In German Putsch stands for Coup d’etat
- Freikorps are asked to disband
- Treaty of Versailles (100,000 army)
- Wolfgang Kapp march on Berlin in March 1920
- German workers save Weimar Republic - general strike
The Freikorps (Free Corps)
- An anti-revolutionary volunteer force
- Army officers set it up as the army demobilized after WWI
- Instrumental in putting down Spartakists and attacking Berlin a year later
Hyper Inflation
- Caused by:
- Need to pay reparations
- Unemployment
- Refusal of workers to work in Ruhr region
- Leads to:
- French Occupation of region in 1923
- New Reichsmark
In Europe during the years of 1920 there was a lot going on such as: Hyper Inflation, The Freikorps, The Kapp Putsch, and the The Spartakist Uprising all had a massive change on Europe.