Challenges

• Which party did the spartacists come from?

  Independent socialist party
• Who lead the spartacists?

  Rosa luxemberg and Karl liebknecht
• Where were the spartacists based?


  Berlin
• What uprising were the spartacists involved in?

  The spartacis revolt
• Which country backed the spartacists?

  The Soviet Union
• When did the spartacist revolt take place?

  January 1919
• What happened during the spartacist revolt?

  The spartacists took over the government newspaper and telegraph bureau and tried to organise a general strike in Berlin
• How was the spartacist revolt put down?

  The government sent in friekorps
• what were the friekorps made up of?


  ex soldiers who still had their weapons
• How many members did the friekorps have in March 1919?

  250000
• When did the kapp putsch happen?


  March 1920
• Why did the friekorps March on Berlin?


  Fears of unemployment
• Who lead the kapp pustch?

  Wolfgang kapp
• What happened in the kapp putsch?


  March on Berlin, leading to politicians fleeing Berlin
• How was the kapp pustch put down?


  The government organised trade unions to go on a general strike, this meant that kapp could not effectively rule Germany due to the chaos
• How many political assassinations took place in the early years of the republic?


  376
• Why did right wing people who assassinated politicians given light punishments?


  Political bias/ sympathy from the judges