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Meanwhile, internal unrest grew. Socialists and Spartacists demanded revolutionary change, and the German military’s fear of socialist ideas spreading within its ranks led to increased agitation at home. On October 2nd, in a pivotal moment, Prince Max von Baden assumed the chancellorship, promising reforms, including that future declarations of war or peace would be made solely by the Reichstag and that the Kaiser’s influence over the military would be relinquished.