Chap 9A - Essay

Question 1

Achievement 1: Economy

Answer 1

Rebuild Germany’s prosperity

• Dawes Plan [1924], 800 mil marks in loans from USA to pay reparations
• Reparations paid, exports increased
• Govt increase welfare benefits and wages for state employees

Question 2

Achievement 2: Politics

Answer 2

Politics became more stable

• No more attempted revolutions (after 1923)
• Parties that supported Weimar democracy gained 136 more seats than those opposing

Question 3

Achievement 3: Culture

Answer 3

Cultural revival in Germany

• Free expression of ideas - Loosened censorship laws
• Bauhaus style of design and architecture developed and the first Bauhaus exhibition attracted 15,000 visitors
• Produced greatest international star Marlene Dietrich and director Fritz Lang (golden age for cinema)
  900 dance bands in 1927

Question 4

Achievement 4: Foreign policy

Answer 4

Improved relations with other countries to help Germany recover

• 1925 signed Locarno Treaties to not change boarders shared with French and Belgium
• 1926, cus of this Germany accepted into LON
• Reverse terms of TOV slowly
• Negotiate reparations (Dawes Plan/ Young Plan) and eastern frontiers
• Young plan - Lighten reparations, removal of British, French and Belgium troops from Rhineland

Question 5

Problem 1: Economy

Answer 5

The econ boom increased inequality

• Value of land in Berlin increased by 700%
• Unemployment rose to 6% in 1928
• Those who lost the most were the middle class (farmers)
• Winners are the big businesses and town land owners
• Not enough demand for the increased production during war
• 1913 uni lecturer 10x more than coal miner
• 1920s uni lecturer 2x more than coal miner

Question 6

Problem 2: Politics

Answer 6

Nazis and communists were building up their organisations

• 30% votes usually went to parties opposing Republic
• Nazis collaborated closely to appear more respectable
• New president in 1925 opposed democracy [Paul Von Hindenburg]

Question 7

Problem 3: Culture

Answer 7

Culture of cities –> moral decline

Made worse by American immigrants and Jewish artists and musicians
Wandervogel movement - wanted return of more conservative values