1920-1923 Elections and 1923 Crisis

Question 1

What was significant about 1920 election

Answer 1

First election after ToV

Question 2

What was the SPDs decline

Answer 2

38% to 21.7%

Question 3

What did DDP % fall below

Answer 3

10%

Question 4

By what % did the ZP drop

Answer 4

1.75%

support concentrated to Catholics, so never suffered any major increases

Question 5

support for extremes rose, what was the KPD’s rise, was their increase more than for DNVP?

Answer 5

From 7.6% to 20%

More than rise for DNVP

Question 6

Which party rose by 5%

Answer 6

DNVP

Question 7

between 1919-23 how many governments did Weimar have

Answer 7

6

Question 8

How long did the longest government last 1919-23?

Answer 8

only 18 months

Question 9

What party did all coalitions 1919-23 contain?

Answer 9

DDP

Question 10

Did the number of votes decline for pro-democratic parties?

What was the % in 1919 and 1920?

Answer 10

Yes

1919: 76%
1920: 48%

Question 11

Germany lost resources as it lost its territories. What % of iron ore did it lose in the ToV

Answer 11

48%

Question 12

Who set the reparations in the ToV

Answer 12

IARC

Question 13

What % of war expenditure was raised via taxation?

Answer 13

16%

Question 14

Who was the finance minister post-ToV that introduced deficit financing?

Answer 14

Erzberger

Question 15

What was the idea of deficit financing?

Answer 15

decrease tax to give people money to spend - increasing demand and creating work

Question 16

What year did France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr

Answer 16

1923

Question 17

Who was the government who promoted passive resistance during the Ruhr crisis

Answer 17

Cuno

Question 18

Who were the winners of inflation crisis

Give an example

Answer 18

Industrialists who invested in factories and landowners

and exporters
and some middle class e.g homeowners

e.g Stinnes who controlled 20% of German industry by the end of 1923

Question 19

Who were the losers of the inflation crisis

Answer 19

mainly middle class who saved in bank accounts

those who had war bonds
those on fixed incomes
those on welfare payments

Question 20

Who were peasants not affected as much by inflation

Answer 20

were self-sufficient, food was still in demand, not many had bank accounts

Question 21

What did unemployment rise to during inflation?

Answer 21

4.1% - which is still relatively low

Question 22

How did industrial workers fare out of inflation?

Answer 22

trade unions couldn’t keep wages up with inflation so struggled in part - but had fewer savings than most so lost less

Question 23

When was there a new coalition in 1923 that introduced new economic policy
who was it led by

Answer 23

August 1923

Stresemann