ruhr nd hyperinflation

• Passive resistance


  A way of opposing somebody without using any kind of force
• Hyperinflation


  Extremely high inflation where money becomes almost worthless
• Enmities


  Hatred or bad feelings that someone might have
• The German government ordered workers to follow passive resistance by stopping work and not producing anything the French could take
• The German government printed more money to pay workers, but this led to hyperinflation as there was more money chasing fewer goods
• Hyperinflation resulted in prices running out of control, e.g. a loaf of bread costing 250 marks in January 1923 rising to 200,000 million marks in November 1923
• Hyperinflation ruined the German economy and particularly badly hit middle-class people with savings
• Children used stacks of worthless money as building blocks, and people needed trolleys to carry enough money to buy a loaf of bread
• The French invaded the Ruhr, Germany's main industrial area, to try to recoup reparations owed under the Treaty of Versailles
• Germany's army was limited to 100,000 soldiers under the Treaty of Versailles, so they could not fight back against the French invasion