Germany And The Growth Of Democracy Flashcards
Reparations
£6.6 billion over 66 years
The first instalment was payed mostly in goods like coal…
Impacts of the First World War on Germany
Virtually Bankrupt
Society Divided
Politically Unstable
Kaisers Loss of Control
28th October 1918
German Navy in Kiel Mutinied
Occupation of the Ruhr
Germany declared they couldn’t pay the second payment of the reparations and so France and Belgium took the Ruhr
Hyperinflation
Germany ordered workers in the Ruhr to go on strike in a passive resistance, but they needed to keep paying workers
They printed more money to pay worker
Bread went from 0.6 marks in 1918 to over 201 billion marks in November 0f 1923
The Political Change and Unrest
1919 - 1923
Red Rising In The Ruhr
Munich Putsch
Kapp Putsch
Assassinations
Assassinations
350 between 1912 - 1922 mainly by right wing extremists
Munich Putsch
Hitler and 2000 supporters marched through Munich, but there was a gun fight - Hitler + Ludendorff arrested
November 1923 the Nazis tried to seize the Bavarian Government
Kapp Putsch
500 frie corps took over Berlin in March 1920
After 100 hours the leader Kapp fled abroad as he didn’t have the support of workers who went on strike
Red Rising in the Ruhr
Striking workers stayed on strike after the Kapp Putsch
They took over several towns so the government sent soldiers to deal with it - 1000 workers were killed
Weimar Culture
Cinema - Metropolis film and Marlene Dietrich Actress
Literature - All quiet on the Western Front
Nightlife - Famous for live Jazz nightclubs
Art and Design - Bauhaus Architecture was prevelant
Stresemann Era
Stopped Hyperinflation + Rentenmark and then Reichsmark
Dawes and Youngs plan
Foreign Policy
Dawes Plan
800 Million gold mark loan from America
Used to build new schools, houses, factories
Youngs Plan
1929
A reduction to reperations
Foreign Policy
Locarno Pact - 1925 - Germany, Belgium, France and Italy
Kellog Briand Pact - 1928 - No war
Joined the League of Nations - 1926
