Golden Years???? ⭐️⭐️

Question 1

How did Stresemann describe this period?

Answer 1

“Dancing on a volcano”, everyone was oblivious to growing corruption, stability masked problems

Question 2

Examples of new cultural developments?

Answer 2

Radio (mass communication), Architecture (Bauhaus movement with new material), Art (Otto Dix, art should have a purpose)

Question 3

What was cabaret?

Answer 3

Streets became notorious for its night clubs, naked dancing, subversive songs and homosexuality

Question 4

Who were opposed to the cultural developments?

Answer 4

Traditionalists, undermined new ideas

Question 5

How did women begin acting?

Answer 5

Started smoking and cutting their hair shorter into bobs, breaking norms and stereotypes

Question 6

What did the Americans influence?

Answer 6

Jazz and fashion

Question 7

Examples of welfare improvements?

Answer 7

Benefits to war victims, 1925 accident insurance and unemployment insurance

Question 8

When was banning of firing pregnant women?

Answer 8

1927, didn’t apply to women in domestic services

Question 9

How did housing improve?

Answer 9

More architects to build more than 2 million houses, reduced homelessness by 60%, Berlin-Britz development

Question 10

Ways that education improved?

Answer 10

Secular schools, private schools banned, abolished corporal punishment

Question 11

Negatives to education reforms?

Answer 11

Protestant Parent’s League and Catholic School Association supported by SPD, people pulled their children out of school

Question 12

Negatives of the welfare reforms?

Answer 12

All insurance lost due to hyperinflation or the Great Depression

Question 13

Dawes Plan?

Answer 13

1924 - Renegotiation of TofV, set up reparations triangle

Question 14

What did the reparations triangle create?

Answer 14

A flow of capital money, rebuilding economies

Question 15

What was employment like in the golden age?

Answer 15

Peaked in 1926, lowered significantly by 1928

Question 16

Young Plan?

Answer 16

Remake of expired Dawes Plan, reduced reparations and gave them till 1988 to pay

Question 17

Hitler’s reaction to Young Plan?

Answer 17

“why should generations unborn be saddled with the debts of their elders”

Question 18

What did the right wing do in response to Young Plan?

Answer 18

Set up National Opposition, too reliant on the USA

Question 19

Economic weaknesses?

Answer 19

Agricultural depression, too reliant on USA, monopolies formed by businessmen

Question 20

Locarno PAct?

Answer 20

1925 - Mutual agreement on borders, Rhineland demilitarisation

Question 21

When was Germany invited to join League of Nations?

Answer 21

1926

Question 22

Kellogg-Briand?

Answer 22

1928 - Declaration that outlawed war

Question 23

Rapallo Treaty?

Answer 23

Allowed good terms with the USSR

Question 24

What were the voting patterns of 1924-28?

Answer 24

Right and left wing lost votes, people voting centre.

Question 25

Why were people voting centre parties in the golden years?

Answer 25

Democracy was thriving and the stability was increasing so people started voting pro-Weimar

Question 26

When does Ebert die?

Answer 26

1925

Question 27

Why was there not a political golden age?

Answer 27

Coalitions!! 1925-26 Luther’s 1st fall over Locarno Pact, Luthers 2nd fall over Imperial flag colours. These showed instability and fragility

Question 28

Who replaces Ebert as President?

Answer 28

Hindenburg from the right wing parties