KEY EVENTS

• the right -wing groups came when the government began to disband the Freikorps

• Army refused to crush the rising, forcing the government to flee, it appeared as if it was a serious threat to the government

• Trade unions called a general strike, which paralysed public services, including water, electricity and gas

• The rising was defeated

• Did have some success in Bavaria: the army installed a right-wing government and the area would remain a hotbed of radicalism

• JUNE 1920- elections resulted in  further loss of support for democratic parties, such as the SPD, and saw gains for the right- wing

KEY PEOPLE

• Wolfgang Kapp (Founder of the wartime patriotic Fatherland Party)

KEY DATES

• MARCH 1920 - beginning of the Kapp Putsch

POSSIBLE EXAM QUESTIONS

• Opposition against the Weimar