Weimar dates

• In 1919 a new democratic constitution drawn up
• Treaty of Versailles 1919
• German army reduced to 100,000 after treaty of Versailles
• Rhineland was demilitarised
• Reparations set at £6.6 billion
• Sparcisists uprising led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht 1918
• Kapp putsch by freikorps in 1920, the army refused to to take them down but workers went on strike and the putsch collapsed
• Hyperinflation due to the rhur in 1923
• Stresemann appointed chancellor in 1923
• Rentemark was a temporary replacement for hyperinflation (land), then coverted into reichmark (gold)
• Dawes plan 1924
• US companies and banks gave loans of nearly $3 billion
• Young plan reduced reparation figure and meant Germany has to make payment until 1988
• Locarno pact recognised Germany's existing boarders 1925
• Germany given permanent seat in League of Nations in 1926 recognising it's return to power
• Kellogg-Briand pact 1928 - all countries would only use army's for self defense
• By 1928 Germany had some of the best paid workers in Europe
• By 1928 homelessness had been reduced by 60%
• Unemployment insurance law 1927
• In 1919 women over the the of 20 given the vote
• By 1933 there were 100,000 women teachers and 3000 women doctors