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  2. Spartacist uprising - Wikipedia

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    The Spartacist uprising (German: Spartakusaufstand), also known as the January uprising (Januaraufstand) or, more rarely, Bloody Week, [3] was an armed uprising that took place in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919.

  3. Timeline of the Weimar Republic - Wikipedia

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    13–17 March: The Kapp Putsch, an attempt by a group of right-wing extremists to take power in Berlin, forces the government to flee the city but then quickly fails. [ 38 ] 13 March–12 April: An uprising of workers in the Ruhr industrial district leads to battles with Freikorps and regular troops in a failed attempt to set up a council republic.

  4. German revolution of 1918–1919 - Wikipedia

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    In the wake of the Kapp Putsch, civil war-like fighting broke out with the Ruhr uprising when the Ruhr Red Army, made up of some 50,000 armed workers, mostly adherents of the KPD and USPD, used the disruption caused by the putsch to take control of the regions' industrial district.

  5. Kapp Putsch - Wikipedia

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    Government poster against the Kapp Putsch, 13 March 1920. [a]After Germany had lost World War I (1914–1918), the German Revolution of 1918–1919 ended the monarchy. The German Empire was abolished and a democratic system, the Weimar Republic, was established in 1919 by the Weimar National Assembly.

  6. Weimar paramilitary groups - Wikipedia

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    The Kapp Putsch of March 1920, a failed attempt to overthrow the government of the Weimar Republic, drew its military support from the Freikorps, in particular the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt. It was after the failure of the Kapp Putsch, and under Allied pressure to keep both Germany's official and unofficial military forces at the 100,000 man limit ...

  7. Timeline of events preceding World War II - Wikipedia

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    Wolfgang Kapp, the leader of the Putsch The failed right-wing Kapp Putsch takes place against the German government. The German military remains passive and the putsch is defeated by a general strike. The German Ruhr Uprising, spurred by the general strike against the Kapp Putsch, is crushed by the German military. June 4

  8. Political violence in Germany (1918–1933) - Wikipedia

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    Spartacist uprising (1919) Berlin March Battles (1919) Silesian Uprisings (1919-1921) Reichstag Bloodbath (1920) Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch (1920) Ruhr uprising (1920) March Action (1921) Cuno strikes (1923) Küstrin Putsch (1923) German October (1923) Hamburg Uprising (1923) Beer Hall Putsch (1923) Blutmai (1929) Altona Bloody Sunday (1932) 1932 ...

  9. Ruhr Red Army - Wikipedia

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    The uprising was sparked by the right-wing Kapp Putsch in Berlin and had as its goal the establishment of a soviet-style council republic in Germany. After an agreement to end a general strike in the region failed, the German government sent in Reichswehr (regular army) and Freikorps (paramilitary) units to put down the rebellion. They acted ...