Germany evidence bank on politics and government 1918-45

Theme Year Evidence

Opposition, control and 1918 Left-wing opposition such as
consent the Spartacists tried to create a
left-wing revolution in
Germany in 1918

Opposition, control and 1920 Left-wing uprisings in Bavaria
consent and the Ruhr in the early 1920s
which challenged the Weimar
constitution

Opposition, control and 1918- 1929 The KPD who wanted to
consent overthrow the Weimar
maintained fairly strong
electoral support

Opposition, control and 1922 Freikorps temporarily removed
consent the government in the Kapp
Putsch in 1922 and
Organisation's Consul
assassinated around 350
left-leaning Weimar politicians

Opposition, control and 1923 On the right, the more extreme
consent Nazis tried to overthrow the
Weimar Constitution in the
Munich Putsch

Opposition, control and 1922-23 Conservative right of the old
consent Prussian military elite largely
rejected the new Weimar
Constitution and allowed much
of the extremist right to attack
the Weimar without
punishment showing
opposition to the Weimar
Constitution was a serious
threat

Politics and government 1928 1928 the Nazis only achieved
2% of the vote in the national
election


Politics and government 1928 Muller’s government was
made up of pro-democratic