Shortages, power
cuts, inflation and thousands of soldiers and civilians were dieing from
influenza.
Mutiny from sailors refusing to
sail at Kiel.
Kaiser forced to give power to
Reichstag in order to get peace from allies. Eventually the Kaiser leaves.
Germany falls into chaos.
The socialists split between
themselves with different goals and especially different ideas for
achieving these goals. The was the Social Democratic party led by
Friedrich Ebert, the Independent Social Democratic Party led by Hugo Haase
and finally the Spartacus League, led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl
Liebknecht was the most extremist of the lot who didn't believe in
government and wanted to use assassinations and strikes to get what they
wanted.