Suppressing the Spartacist uprising through the Freikorps shows which complexity of the Weimar government?

Correct answer: A democratic government used army backed forces to save order

The direct answer is A: a democratic government used army-backed forces to restore order. In 1919, the Spartacists, a revolutionary left-wing group, attempted an uprising. The Weimar government lacked a reliable force of its own and called on the Freikorps, right-wing volunteer military units, to suppress it. Option A is correct because this shows a difficult contradiction: the new democracy depended on forces that were often hostile to democracy in order to maintain order. Option B is wrong because elections were not completely stopped; parliamentary politics continued. Option C is wrong because the monarchy was not restored. Option D is wrong because the government did not write the Treaty of Versailles; the Allied powers imposed it. The event therefore reveals tension between security and democratic principles, not the end of democracy at that moment. Memory cue: Freikorps and Spartacists show violent pressure around the birth of Weimar.