Weimar Republic 1918-29

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    • 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
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