? starter activity

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? starter activity
Can you recognise the face of the murderer of
Rosa Luxemburg?
Rosa Luxemburg
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Who killed Rosa Luxemburg?
? LOs

• To explain the differences between right left
  wing politics
• To identify the aims of the Spartacists
• To explain reasons for the death of R.L.

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? Your task

• Political parties are often divided into two
  groups. Those of the left and those on the right.
• What are the two main parties in the UK? How are
  their policies different? Who tends to vote for
  these parties

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? Your task

• Match these phrases to a party
• Trade unions
• Taxation
• Free enterprise
• NHS welfare state
• Private ownership
• Nationalisation
• Law and order
• Immigration
• Patriotism
• Write a definition of left- and right-wing
  political parties in your notes.

? Extension. What would left and right wing
parties in Germany want after World War One?
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? Your task

• Read about the ideas of a group called the
  Spartacists on p.12 (SHP) and note down
• Main aims of the Spartacists
• Reasons why people supported Red Rosa
• ? How similar / different are their ideas to your
  earlier definition of Communism

KPD poster German Communist Party
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Spartacists

• Left-wing revolutionaries
• Get rid of Kaiser
• Social revolution like Russian Revolution (1917)
• Disagreements over pace of change seize power
  from Eberts govt or wait???
• Get rid of capitalism and wealthy classes, e.g.
  landowners the so-called elite

Karl Liebneckt Rosa Luxemburg
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Red Rosa

• Politically astute married a German colleague
  to get into country then separated from him
• Brilliant orator
• Clever writer and political thinker
• Cultivated an international reputation Red
  Rosa

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? Your task

• Read p.14 and list the reasons why the Spartacist
  Uprising failed in your notes.
• Study sources 11-16 on p.15 (SHP) should anyone
  else share the blame for Rosas death?

Spartacists at the government newspaper offices.
The bundles are reels of paper for the newspapers
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Reasons for failure

• Poorly organised
• Spartacists failed to capture many buildings in
  Berlin
• Lacked support of other left-wing groups
• Govt had support of Friekorps
• Spartacist leaders murdered party lack direction

One of the armoured vehicles used by the
Freikorps to put down the Spartacist Uprising
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? Homework

• Its January 1919. Produce a right-wing account
  of the Spartacist Uprising and present it as a
  newspaper front page.
• Include a description of the events
• Details on Luxemburg Liebknecht
• The role of Ebert and the Friekorps in putting
  down the uprising
• ?Refer to events happening in Germany and around
  the world in 1919

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Needs improving Satisfactory WOW factor!
Includes a basic description of the events of the Spartacist Uprising Some attempt to present the work as a newspaper may not be word processed or only partially complete Describes the key events of the Spartacist Uprising Mentions the role of Ebert and/or the Friekorps but this needs developing Good use of ICT although some areas of the newspaper need more detail or lack autheniticity Includes a full description of events. Detailed use of names, dates and places. The role of Ebert and the Friekorps are explored in depth, for example by including quotes or interviews Impressive use of ICT to give the authentic effect of a newspaper front page
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The site of R.L.s murder inBerlin
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? Extension task

• Visit www.studyhistory.co.uk and go to the
  weblinks section for GCSE Germany. Find out more
  about the life and ideas of Rosa Luxemburg.
  Produce a factoid. What does her life tell us
  about Germany at the time of the foundation of
  the Weimar Republic?

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? Plenary

• Left and right wing?
• Key aims of Spartacists
• Appeal of Rosa Luxemburg?
• Reasons for failure
• ?What problems would Ebert now face in governing
  Germany?