HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2014 Lecture Fifteen: The German Revolution and Weimar Republic.

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HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2014 Lecture Fifteen: The German Revolution and Weimar Republic

November 1918 Kiel Mutiny and the Formation of Workers and Soldiers Councils (Räte) Berlin -- Friedrich Ebert and Philip Scheidemann Kurt Eisner and Bavarian Free State

Struggle for Stability Ebert-Groener Pact Gustav Noske Founding of KPD Freikorps Movement Spartacist Uprising, January 1919 Murder of Liebknecht and Luxemburg Murder of Eisner

The Treaty of Versailles From Armistice to Peace Treaty The “Diktat” The War Guilt Clause Territorial Settlement Reparations Demilitarization Austria and Plebiscite Territories Emergence of “Stab in the Back” Legend (Dolchstoss Legende)

Formation of Weimar Republic Why Weimar? Parliamentary Republic Proportional Representation Office of Chancellor and Cabinet Office of President

The Period of Instability The Democratic Coalition -- SPD, Center, DDP The Anti-Democratic Forces -- KPD, Freikorps Left vs. Right Bavaria after Eisner Left vs. Right The Kapp Putsch Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations -- Erzberger, Rathenau, Scheidemann

The Crisis of 1923 Occupation of the Ruhr Hyperinflation Communist Insurgency in Saxony Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria

Period of Stabilization Rightward Shift of the Coalition From President Ebert to President Hindenburg Gustav Stresemann as Foreign Minister The Spirit of Locarno

Weimar Culture Cultural Responses to War and Crisis Satire and Avant-Garde Movements: Expressionism, Dada New and Populist Art Forms: Photography, Cinema, Cabaret Left-Wing and Jewish Intellectual Culture