Revolution and Counter-revolution 1918-19

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  • Mutiny

    in parts of the German navy at Kiel and Wilhelmshaven.

  • Worker's and Soldiers' Council

    set up in Kiel and in other north German cities

  • Kurt Eisnar

    declares Bavaria to be a socialist republic

  • The German Republic

    is procliamed. Ebert, leader of the SPD, became the new Chancellor.
    (Counter Revolution)

  • The Ebert-Groener Pact

    secures army support for the new republic. (Counter Revolution)

  • The Stinnes-Legien Agreement.

    An agreement between German industry and the German workers.
    (Counter Revolution)

  • Congress of Workers' and Soldiers' Councils

    calls for democratic reform in the army and other areas of German society.

  • The Spartacist Uprising

  • Friekorps

    units suppress the Spartacist Uprising. (Counter Revolution)

  • Revolutionary violence in Bavaria.

    Assassination of Kurt Eisner.
  • Period: to

    End to Bavaria disturbances.

    Friekorps groups and units of the army end the revolutionary disturbances in Bavaria. Over 500 die.