Left-Wing Threat

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Hugo

Cards (6)

  • The Spartacists were led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg
  • In 1919 Spartacists tried to overthrow the Weimar Republic but were put down by the Freikorps
  • the Freikorps was a group of ex-soldiers who hated communism
  • Ebert's ruthless measures against the communists created hate between them and his Socialist Party
  • Ebert's measures against communism gained support from many in Germany
  • Ebert was scared that Germany would go the same way as Russia's communist revolution in 1917