German Revolution

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Was a civil conflict in the German Empire at the end of the First World War that resulted in the replacement of the German federal constitutional monarchy with a democratic parliamentary republic.

Chronology

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1. Revolutionary States

A series of short-lived states were proclaimed in various territories of the German Empire in the aftermath of World War I.

November 1918: The People's State of Bavaria was a short-lived socialist state in Bavaria from 1918 to 1919.

November 1918: The Soviet Republic of Saxony was established during the German Revolution of 1918-19 by socialist leader Richard Lipinski.

January 1919: The Bremen Soviet Republic was a short-lived state that existed for 25 days in 1919.

November 1918: French troops put the Alsace-Lorraine under military occupation and entered Strasbourg.

November 1918: The was a short-lived Soviet republic created during the German Revolution at the end of World War I in the province of Alsace-Lorraine.

January 1919: The Soviet Republic of Saxony lasted only a few weeks before being overthrown by the Weimar Republic.

February 1919: The Bremen Soviet Republic was overthrown by the Weimar Republic.

April 1919: The Bavarian Soviet Republic was established in April 1919 after the demise of Kurt Eisner's People's State of Bavaria.

May 1919: The Bavarian Soviet Republic was overthrown by elements of the German Army and the paramilitary Freikorps.