Kapp Putsch, Left + Rights

• Who were the Spartacists?

  A communist group supported by the soviet union
• What did the Spartacists do in January 1919?


  They staged a revolt in Berlin, led by Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht

  >aim was to overthrow Weimar Republic
• How did Ebert stop the Spartacist uprising?

  He used the Freikorps

  > he put 2 extreme political views against eachother
• Who was the leader of the Kapp Putsch?

  Wolfgang Kapp
• What was the Kapp Putsch?

  March 1920, Freikorps staged a rebellion

  >aim was to seize control + weimar democratic system
• Why did the Kapp Putsch fail?

  German workers went on strike

  > Wolfgang Kapp fled