BGS History GCSE Revision Tests Politics in Weimar

BGS History GCSE Revision Tests Politics in Weimar Germany

1) What do LEFT-WING people want to happen? They want CHANGE!!! • They want the gap between rich and poor to be made much smaller – workers should be looked after better and paid more.

2) What do RIGHT-WING people want? They want things to stay the SAME!!! • Basically they’re happy to keep things as they are – allow rich people to stay rich, and keep paying the workers the same.

3) Communism is a left-wing idea: true or false? TRUE • Communism is the most extreme left-wing idea EVERYBODY SHOULD BE EQUAL!! • This will happen through a REVOLUTION!!!

4) Who were the Freikorps? • Soldiers who had fought in the First World War, who now joined together. • They hated the new democratic Weimar Republic – they saw democracy as weak. • BUT THEY HATED COMMUNISM MORE!

5) Were they left-wing or right-wing? RIGHT-WING!!! [They hated democracy, and wanted the strong leadership of the Kaiser back]

6) Which group tried to take power in 1919? Were they extreme left-wing or extreme right-wing? SPARTACISTS • They were a LEFT-WING, COMMUNIST group.

7) Which group stopped them? Were they extreme left-wing or extreme right-wing? THE FREIKORPS!!! • They were RIGHT-WING [They hated democracy, and wanted the strong leadership of the Kaiser back]

8) Was the ‘Red Rising of the Ruhr’ in 1920 started by the Communists or the right-wing? COMMUNISTS!!!

9) Which group tried to take power in the 1920 Kapp Putsch? THE FREIKORPS!!! • They thought that the Weimar Republic was so weak that it would be easy to take over. • Led by Dr Kapp.

10) How was the Kapp Putsch by the Freikorps stopped? A strike by Berlin’s workers.