Logged out
Access All our Essays in an Instant
Swap your work for FREE access, or pay £4.99 for instant access
Stages to Germany from 1918 to 1919
Member rating: No Rating | Words: 1119 | Submitted: Sun Dec 02 2007
Page Preview
On the left is an image preview of every page of this document, and below are the first 150 words with formatting removed:
Describe the stages by which Germany changed in the course of 1918 and 1919 from a monarchy to a democratic Republic. From September 1918 to early 1919 the nature and structure of the Weimar Republic took shape following the collapse of the Kaiser's Germany. There were five key stages which changed Germany into a democratic republic. These were the creation of a parliamentary monarchy; the creation of a parliamentary republic; the freezing of the revolution; the suppression of the Spartakist revolution; and the final stage in turning Germany into a democratic republic: the formal establishment of the new regime. The first step in this change was the creation of a parliamentary monarchy. The second Reich had not been a true democracy, despite the existence of the Reichstag. The Kaiser appointed the chancellor and Wilhelm II was the only person who could remove him. It was clear to the German leaders in the...
To see the full version of this document, and 145,348 others
