In 1918, the

(emperor) renowned his thrown. Fredrick Ebert, a German

, and the Social Democratic party took control of Germany and declared a

The Treaty of

was one of the

treaties at the end of World War

in

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Most Germans

the Treaty of Versailles.

They felt that they had been

by the

politicians who agreed to the ceasefire in

because most Germans were led to believe that they were

the war.

Because reparations had to be paid and Germany lost important industrial areas they had

problems for years.

Both of these problems

the Weimar Republic helping it's opponents including the

The spartacist League was the name of the German

Party. The spartacists wanted a communist German

They were led by

Luxemburg and

Liebknecht.

The

were groups of ex-

used by the

goverment to squash the

uprising.

The Freikorp disbanded in

when Germany reduced the

However in the same year the Freikorp tried to take power in the

Putsch.

During 1919 the Spartacists took over the government's

and telegraph bureau and tried to organise a general

in Berlin. The

goverment sent

to put down the revolt. There was street

for several days before the revolt ended and Spartacist leaders were

A group of

led by Dr

Kapp, occupied Berlin. The

goverment asked the

to suppress the putsch and asked trade unions to organise a general

The

refused but the

agreed. The general strike caused so much chaos that the Kapp could not rule

and was forced to

The Nazi Party was a right-wing

opposition

group which was growing in membership. It had its own

newspapers

and held

public

meetings to

spread

its idea. Adolf Hitler was a member that showed a great talent in

public speaking

The

SA

formed in

1921

and were the violent side of the party. The SA broke up

communist

meetings and

beat

people