The Birth of the Weimar Republic

I. The November Revolution

A. Revolution Breaks Out

1. Northern Ports

2. Kurt Eisner’s Munich Revolution

3. Berlin

B. New Government Formed

C. Sources of Trouble

1. The Spartacus League

2. Kurt Eisner’s Bavaria

3. Revolutionary Soldiers

D. Reeling in the Revolution

1. The Spartacus Revolt (Jan 5-12, 1919)

2. Role of the Freikorps

3. March General Strike

4. Bavarian Soviet Republic

II. Tasks for the New Republic

A. Writing a Constitution

B. Signing the Versailles Treaty

C. Defending Against Counterrevolution

III. Crisis of the Early 1920s

A. Economic and Social Problems

B. The SPD Years (Feb 1919 – June 1920)

C. Konstantin Fehrenbach’s Cabinet (June 1920 – May 1921)

1. Allied Reparation Bill

D. Joseph Wirths’ Cabinet (May 1921 – Nov 1922)

1. Fulfillment Policy

2. Walther Rathenau

4. The Treaty of Rapollo (Apr 1922)

5. Rathenau’s Assassination (June 24, 1922)

E. Wilhelm Cuno’s Cabinet (Dec 1922 – Aug 1923)

1. Resistance Policy

2. French Invasion of the Ruhr (Jan 11, 1923)

3. Passive Resistancee in the Ruhr

4. Hyperinflation of 1923

F. The Nazi Beerhall Putsch

1. The Early Nazi Party (or NSDAP, f. 1919)

2. Mussolini’s Take-Over in Italy

3. The Failed Putsch in Munich (Nov 8-9, 1923)

4. Hitler’s Trial and Imprisonment

IV. Stabilization

A. Gustav Stresemann’s Grand Coalition (Aug 1923 – Nov 1923)

1. Currency Reform (Nov 15, 1923)

B. Wilhelm Marx’s Cabinet (Nov 1923 – Jan 1925)

1. Stresemann as Foreign Minister (1923-1929)

2. The Dawes Plan (Aug 1924)