WORLD HISTORY

INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939

NAZISM IN GERMANY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who led the Spartacist revolt?
A
Wolfgang Kapp and Rosa Luxemberg
B
Adolf Hitler and Anton Drexler
C
Karl Liebnknecht and Rosa Luxemberg
D
Karl Liebnknecht and Ebert
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1914 Liebknecht and Luxemburg had founded the Marxist Spartacus League (Spartakusbund), which gave the uprising its popular name. The revolt was improvised and small scale and quickly crushed by the superior strength of government and paramilitary troops in what became known as Bloody Week.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Spartacist League was another political party in Germany that opposed the Weimer Republic. They supported Soviet style governance. They were opposed by the Socialists, Democrats, Catholics and were crushed by the Free Corps. Later the anguished Spartacists formed the Communist Party of Germany.

Detailed explanation-3: -Born and raised in an assimilated Jewish family in Poland, she became a German citizen in 1897. After the SPD supported German involvement in World War I in 1915, Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht co-founded the anti-war Spartacus League (Spartakusbund) which eventually became the KPD.

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