‘Golden Age’ Flashcards
What were terms of Dawes plan? When was it?
- Start by paying 1billion marks p.a
- 2.5 billion marks increase p.a till 1929
- Large loan of 800 million marks by USA
- 1924
Terms of Young plan? When was it?
- Till 1988
- Pay £1.8 b instead of £6.6b
- 1929
- Britain and France to remove troops from Rhineland by June 1930
Was it golden age for women
🙂:
- 1925 35% of workforce Women
- Equal voting rights
☹️:
- Demobilisation laws
- Double earners
- No representative in reichstag
Was there evidence that supported the republic?
May 24’ - 61% pro-republican votes
Dec 24’ - 67%
Drop in extremist votes May 24’ - Dec 24’
Nazis : 6%-3.5%
How many cabinets had majority in Weimar?
6 out of 23
Evidence it wasn’t political golden age
1926 gov of Luther collapsed over flag dispute
How did stresemann stabilise the economy?
- Ended passive resistance
- Issuing of new currency (August 24’ rentenmark back to Reichsmark)
- Balancing the budget (300,000 civil servants cut)
What did Stresemann call the Dawes plan?
“ no more than an economic armistice”
How much did real wages increase?
1927 : 9%
1928 : 12%
When was Hindenburg elected as president?
1925
What did the Locarno Pact achieve? When was it?
- Germany recognised Western borders
- agreed to remove troops from Rhineland
- 1925
What did treaty of Rapallo achieve? When was it?
- Germany and USSR resumed trade
- Pilots allowed to train and new weapons developed in Russia
- 1922
What did treaty of Berlin achieve? When was it?
- Germany would remain neutral if USSR were involved in a war
- 1926
How had street violence decreased from 1924-29?
29 Nazi deaths, 92 Communist deaths
What territories did Germany give up at Locarno?
Alsace Lorraine and Eupen-Malmedy
