Political violence

Question 1

Were the Spartacists left wing or Right Wing?

Answer 1

Left Wing

Question 2

Who were the leaders of the Spartacists?

Answer 2

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht

Question 3

Who were Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht?

Answer 3

The leaders of the Spartacists

Question 4

What did the Spartacists want?

Answer 4

A Communist revolution like the one that happened in Russia in 1917

Question 5

When was the Spartacist uprising?

Answer 5

January 1919

Question 6

What happened in January 1919?

Answer 6

The Spartacist uprising

Question 7

How many people were killed in the Spartacist uprising?

Answer 7

100 workers and the leaders of the Spartacist organisation.

Question 8

Who stopped the Spartacist uprising?

Answer 8

The army and the Freikorps

Question 9

When did the Red Rising in the Ruhr take place?

Answer 9

March to April 1920

Question 10

What happened from March to April 1920?

Answer 10

The Red Rising in the Ruhr

Question 11

Why did the Red Rising in the Ruhr take place?

Answer 11

Many German workers were angry about bad pay and bad working conditions

Question 12

What did bad pay and bad working conditions lead to in 1920?

Answer 12

The Red Rising in the Ruhr

Question 13

How many people were in the Communist ‘Red Army’ that occupied the Ruhr in 1920?

Answer 13

50,000

Question 14

What did 50,000 workers join in 1920?

Answer 14

The Communist ‘Red Army’

Question 15

Who crushed the Red Rising in the Ruhr?

Answer 15

The German Army and the Freikorps

Question 16

How many workers were killed when the Red Rising in the Ruhr was crushes?

Answer 16

1000

Question 17

1000 people died when what was crushed?

Answer 17

The Red Rising in the Ruhr

Question 18

Why did the Red Rising in the Ruhr fail?

Answer 18

The Communist Party had weak leadership.
The Communist Party did not have a clear plan.
The protests did not have widespread, committed support.

Question 19

What did weak communist party leadership, a lack of a clear plan and a failure for the protests to become more widespread lead to?

Answer 19

The failure of the Red Rising in the Ruhr.

Question 20

When did the Kapp Putsch take place?

Answer 20

13 March 1920

Question 21

What happened on the 13 March 1920?

Answer 21

The Kapp Putsch

Question 22

Who took part in the Kapp Putsch

Answer 22

The Freikorps lead by Wolfgang Kapp

Question 23

What did the Friekorps lead by Wolfgang Kapp, take part in?

Answer 23

The Kapp Putsch

Question 24

Why did the Kapp Putsch happen?

Answer 24

The government ordered the Freikorps to be disbanded as it had no need for them now that the left wing groups had been crushed

Question 25

The government ordering the Friekorps to disband lead to what?

Answer 25

The Kapp Putsch

Question 26

What did the Freikorps do during the Kapp Putsch?

Answer 26

12,000 of them marched to Berlin.
They caused the government to flee.
They demanded that Kapp become the head of the government.

Question 27

How was the Kapp Putsch defeated?

Answer 27

The workers of Berlin went on strike, making it impossible for Kapp to rule.

Question 28

The workers going on strike defeated which political uprising?

Answer 28

The Kapp Putsch?

Question 29

When did the Munich Putsch take place?

Answer 29

8 - 9 November 1923

Question 30

What happened on the 8 - 9 November 1923?

Answer 30

The Munich Putsch

Question 31

Who lead the Nazis during the Munich Putsch

Answer 31

Hitler and General Ludendorff

Question 32

How many members were in the Nazi Party at the time of the Munich Putsch?

Answer 32

55,000

Question 33

55,000 people were members of which political party in November 1923

Answer 33

The Nazi Party

Question 34

Why did the Munich Putsch happen?

Answer 34

Hitler and the Nazis thought that democracy lead to weak government and wanted one strong leader.

Question 35

Hitler and the Nazis believing that democracy caused weak government lead to what event?

Answer 35

The Munich Putsch

Question 36

Where did the Munich Putsch start?

Answer 36

In a beer hall in Munich, where the leader of Bavaria (Kahr) was speaking.

Question 37

Who was forced to join the Munich Putsch

Answer 37

Kahr, the leader of Bavaria

Question 38

The leader of Bavaria, Kahr, was forced to do what?

Answer 38

Join the Munich Putsch

Question 39

Was the Munich Putsch a success?

Answer 39

Yes, because it gave Hitler a lot of publicity during his trial.
No, because it failed to make Ludendorff president and many Nazi leaders were sent to prison, and the Nazi party almost fell apart without their leaders.