History A-Level
Defeat and the collapse of the imperial regime
What Defeat and the collapse of the imperial regime means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Facing defeat, military collapse and the Kiel mutiny sparked revolution, and on 9 November Scheidemann proclaimed a republic.
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