The German Revolution of 1918-1919 was the uprising that ended the German Empire at the close of the First World War and led to the creation of a republic. It began with a naval mutiny at Kiel in late October 1918, when sailors refused to take part in a final sortie, and quickly spread to workers' and soldiers' councils across the country. Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated in November, and the Social Democrat Friedrich Ebert took charge of a provisional government. Radical leftists, among them the Spartacists, sought a council republic, but they were crushed by the army and Freikorps units in early 1919, and Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered. The revolution led to the Weimar Republic and its constitution of August 1919.
Before and after
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- from November 1918 to March 1920Hungarian–Romanian War
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