KPD DEPRESSION

Question 1

Membership large

Answer 1

1930 election 1million votes (mainly industrial)

Question 2

Tactics
4

Answer 2

• hunger marches
• red front fighters - against SA and police
• ‘wild clique groups’ for schools
• shifted focus towards unemployed

Question 3

Ideology

Answer 3

-worked closely with USSR - overthrow weimar
-military cuts
-depression = pushed hatred for capitalism. workers revolution

Question 4

Thoughts on SPD

Answer 4

‘Social fascists’
KPD spent equal time fighting them as they did with the Nazis

Question 5

STRENGTHS
3

Answer 5

1. propaganda
   -Thalmann (new leader) speeches against capitalism
   -‘bread and freedom’
   -caters towards unemployed
2. membership increase - biggest communist party outside Russia
   - less extremist parties declining
3. red front fighters (powerful)

Question 6

STRENGTHS
new leader?

Answer 6

Thalmann

Question 7

STRENGTHS
Catchphrase

Answer 7

bread and freedom

Question 8

WEAKNESSES
4

Answer 8

1. Russia 1917 too similar
2. workers with guns - not efficient
   - not enough money to fund mass propaganda
3. Ideology only appealed to workers not all
4. Lost 50% membership in first 3 months

Question 9

WEAKNESS / DRIVEN TO NAZIS
3

Answer 9

1. Nazis lesser of two evils
2. Nazis had money and charisma
3. Ideology appealed to all not just workers