quiz 2

• USA: Which country had provided significant loans to the allies during WW1?
• Fails to repay reparations: As a result of economic hardship, what does Germany fail to do twice in late 1922?
• The Ruhr: Where did French and Belgium troops occupy in January 1923?
• A key industrial center: Why was the Ruhr important to Germany?
• Industrial resources e.g. coal: What do French and Belgium troops take from the Ruhr Instead of cash payments?
• Passive resistance: What form of resistance did the German government urge workers to take?
• Dawes Plan: What finally removed French and Belgium troops from Germany in 1925?
• Hyperinflation: What problem did the French and Belgium make worse for Germany?
• Printing more money due to the failure to pay reparations: What were the main causes of Germany's hyperinflation problem?
• 200bn marks: By Nov 1923 how much did it cost to buy a loaf of bread in Germany?
• Middle classes, people with savings, pensioners: Can you give two groups of people that hyperinflation had a negative impact on?
• Can you give two groups of people that benefitted from hyperinflation?

  
  

  People with debts, loans, and farmers