The Spartacist Rising: January 1919

Question 1

December 1918

Answer 1

Regular clashes between gov and the revolutionaries

Question 2

January 1919

Answer 2

Some Spartacist members attempted a revolution in Berlin against Ebert’s government

Question 3

5 January 1919

Answer 3

Spartacists captured the headquarters of the gov’s newspaper and the telegraph bureau
- Uprising badly prepared
- Didn’t get support of other left-wing groups
- Easily crushed by the Freikorps

Question 4

10 January 1919

Answer 4

Freikorps took over the Spartacist headquarters

Question 5

15 January 1919

Answer 5

Spartacists were crushed

Question 6

How many were killed in the Spartacist uprising?

Answer 6

100 Spartacists & 13 Freikorps
Along w/ Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Leibknecht

Question 7

four months following the 15th of January 1919

Answer 7

Freikorps crushed left-wing uprisings in many cities.
- Killed thousands more communist supporters.

Question 8

How was Ebert’s success w/ dealing with the threat to the Republic from left-wing revolutionaries paid at a high price?

Answer 8

He had put his government into the hands of the army and the Freikorps, neither to be trusted as loyal and he had fatally undermined the position of the Social Democrats as the representatives of the working classes.