Weimar Republic 1918-29

• When was Treaty of Versailles signed?


  June 28 1919
• What article stated that Germany caused the war?

  Article 231
• How much were the reparations?

  £6.6 billion
• How many colonies in Africa and Far East did Germany lose?

  11
• What was the army limited to?

  100,000 men
• What happened to the Rhineland?

  It was demilitarised
• What percentage of European territory was lost?

  13%
• What were leaders of the German Republic who signed the treaty of versailles called?

  November Criminals
• What did people feel the politicians had done?

  They felt they had been ‘stabbed in the back’
• When did the French send troops into the Ruhr?

  January 1923
• Why did the French send troops into the Ruhr?

  Germany had failed to pay reparations, so the French confiscated raw materials
• What did the workers at the Ruhr do?

  Went on strike
• How did the French respond to the strikes?

  Arrested those who obstructed them and brought in their own workers
• When did hyperinflation occur?

  1923
• How did hyperinflation occur?

  Government needed more money to pay debts, so printed more money. It began to lose value
• Who suffered from hyperinflation?

  People with money in bank accounts, insurance policies or pensions
• Who benefited from hyperinflation?

  People who had loans, people who hoarded goods and foreign visitors
• When did Gustav Stresemann become Chancellor and foreign secretary?


  August 1923
• What was Stresemann’s main aim?

  To stabilise the Weimar Republic and regain respect for Germany in foreign affairs.
• What did Stresemann set up in November 1923?

  the Rentenbank
• What new currency did the Rentenbank issue?

  Rentenmark (value tied to price of gold)
• What bank took over in August 1924?

  Reichsbank, with new Reichsmark currency
• When was the Dawes Plan?

  April 1924
• Who came up with the Dawes plan?

  Charles Dawes, an American banker
• What did the Dawes plan reduce reparations to?

  £50 million per year
• What did US banks agree to do with the Dawes plan?

  Give loans to German industry
• When was the Young plan?


  August 1929
• Who came up with the Young Plan?


  Allies and American banker called Owen Young
• What did Young Plan reduce reparations to?

  £2 billion

  Germany given further 59 years to pay
• When did the French leave the Rhineland?

  1930
• When was the Locarno Pact?

  December 1st 1925
• Who signed the Locarno Pact?

  Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Belgium

  This pact was not imposed on Germany
• What did the Locarno Pact state?

  Germany accepted 1919 border with France and promised peace

  Rhineland would be permanently demilitarised
• When was Germany accepted into The League of Nations?

  September 1926
• What did the League of Nations involve?

  Powerful countries discussed ways is solving the world‘s problems without resorting to war
• When was Kellog-Briand Pact signed?

  August 1928
• What did the Kellog-Briand Pact state?

  Countries would not use war to achieve foreign policy aims