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The German revolution of 1918–1919, also known as the November Revolution (German: Novemberrevolution), was an uprising started by workers and soldiers in the final days of World War I. It quickly and almost bloodlessly brought down the German Empire , then, in its more violent second stage, the supporters of a parliamentary republic were ...
German strike of January 1918, against World War I. German revolution of 1918–1919; Berlin March Battles, in 1919. First Silesian Uprising, including a general strike, in 1919. Spartacist uprising, including strikes, in 1919.
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 Hungary signs the Treaty of Trianon with the Allied powers. The treaty regulated the status of an independent Hungarian state and defined ...
The roots of the republic lay in the German Empire's defeat in the First World War and the ensuing German Revolution of 1918–1919.In September 1917, the Bavarian Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), which rejected revolutionary efforts in Bavaria, had submitted a corresponding motion (Auer-Süssheim-Antrag) to the Bavarian Landtag, which contained the main demands of the Bavarian SPD ...
Garford–Putilov armoured car. Photograph taken in the spring of 1918 in the Baltic region. By all appearances this is a vehicle captured by the German army. On the whole, the Garford–Putilov armoured cars correspond to the time in which they were made and compare very favourably to other armoured vehicles from the First World War.
Ralf Hoffrogge: The German Revolution’s Bloody End. In: Jacobin Magazine, March 2019; Reinhard Sturm: Vom Kaiserreich zur Republik 1918/19. In: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 23 December 2011; Gerd Nohr: März 1919. In: Marxistische Bibliothek, 10 May 2007, Archived from Original; Paul Levi: Brief an Lenin (27. März 1919).
Kurt Eisner (German pronunciation: [kʊʁt ˈʔaɪsnɐ]; 14 May 1867 – 21 February 1919) [1] was a German politician, revolutionary, journalist, and theatre critic.As a socialist journalist, he organized the socialist revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy in Bavaria in November 1918, which led to him being described as "the symbol of the Bavarian revolution".
The Reich Congress of Workers' and Soldiers' Councils meeting in Berlin on 16 December 1918. The German workers' and soldiers' councils of 1918–1919 (German: Arbeiter- und Soldatenräte) were short-lived revolutionary bodies that spread the German Revolution to cities across the German Empire during the final days of World War I.