Economic and social problems in Germany 1919-24 Flashcards
Financial problems in the aftermath of the war?
How had the war been financed in Germany and what was their plan to fix the economy?
How had Britain financed the war?
What was the war debt prior to reparations?
Successive government avoided making civil servants redundant and even did what?
What was the counter to the fact that unemployment was nearly 1.8% in 1921?
How many times higher were prices than in 1913?
Who supported the 1920 Fehrenbach coalition?
What was unemployment in Britain in 1921?
The political impact of reparations
The total was presented to Germany with what?
Who replaced Fehrenbach and was forced to accept?
When did the committee grant a two month postponment of payments?
When did Germany ask for a further suspension of payments?
What did Germany ask for in November and how was it received?
The economic impact of reparations
Germany’s gold reserves were inadequate for what?
Why was it an issue that a proportion was in coal?
Why could Germany not pay in goods?
They could have paid in foreign currency reserves had the allies not done what?
What are the views of Maynard Keynes and Peukert
The Franco-Belgian occupation of the Ruhr
How large was the force sent in January 1923?
What did the forces grow to?
Why could Chancellor Cuno not fight back?
What did paramilitary groups do?
How many Germans were expelled from the area
How many Germans were shot (including a 7 year old)?
In may deliveries were what?
The Ruhr fell to what proportion of it’s pre-occupation output?
The economic effects of the occupation
What was lost from closed businesses and unemployed workers?
How did Germany have to get coal and pay for it?
What drove prices up further?
The total cost of the occupation plans amounted to what?
Social welfare
What was there an enshrined constitutional right to?
A 1919 law limited the working day at what?
When was the state insurance system extended to women and the disabled?
In 1919, aid for war veterans incapable of working because of injury became the responsibility of who?
When was the National Youth Welfare Act?
Hyperinflation - winners
What were black marketeers doing?
What did Enterprising business people do?
Those on what kind of rent?
Why did most farmers cope well?
Give an example of a businessman that benefitted?
Hyperinflation - Losers
Pensioners lost but especially who?
How could people have lent money to the government in war time?
Unskilled workers who were not what?
At the end of 1923 how much of the workforce was employed?
The mittlesand paid disproportionate what?
Why were the sick so much worse off?
