Golden Years???? ⭐️⭐️ Flashcards
How did Stresemann describe this period?
“Dancing on a volcano”, everyone was oblivious to growing corruption, stability masked problems
Examples of new cultural developments?
Radio (mass communication), Architecture (Bauhaus movement with new material), Art (Otto Dix, art should have a purpose)
What was cabaret?
Streets became notorious for its night clubs, naked dancing, subversive songs and homosexuality
Who were opposed to the cultural developments?
Traditionalists, undermined new ideas
How did women begin acting?
Started smoking and cutting their hair shorter into bobs, breaking norms and stereotypes
What did the Americans influence?
Jazz and fashion
Examples of welfare improvements?
Benefits to war victims, 1925 accident insurance and unemployment insurance
When was banning of firing pregnant women?
1927, didn’t apply to women in domestic services
How did housing improve?
More architects to build more than 2 million houses, reduced homelessness by 60%, Berlin-Britz development
Ways that education improved?
Secular schools, private schools banned, abolished corporal punishment
Negatives to education reforms?
Protestant Parent’s League and Catholic School Association supported by SPD, people pulled their children out of school
Negatives of the welfare reforms?
All insurance lost due to hyperinflation or the Great Depression
Dawes Plan?
1924 - Renegotiation of TofV, set up reparations triangle
What did the reparations triangle create?
A flow of capital money, rebuilding economies
What was employment like in the golden age?
Peaked in 1926, lowered significantly by 1928
Young Plan?
Remake of expired Dawes Plan, reduced reparations and gave them till 1988 to pay
Hitler’s reaction to Young Plan?
“why should generations unborn be saddled with the debts of their elders”
What did the right wing do in response to Young Plan?
Set up National Opposition, too reliant on the USA
Economic weaknesses?
Agricultural depression, too reliant on USA, monopolies formed by businessmen
Locarno PAct?
1925 - Mutual agreement on borders, Rhineland demilitarisation
When was Germany invited to join League of Nations?
1926
Kellogg-Briand?
1928 - Declaration that outlawed war
Rapallo Treaty?
Allowed good terms with the USSR
What were the voting patterns of 1924-28?
Right and left wing lost votes, people voting centre.
Why were people voting centre parties in the golden years?
Democracy was thriving and the stability was increasing so people started voting pro-Weimar
When does Ebert die?
1925
Why was there not a political golden age?
Coalitions!! 1925-26 Luther’s 1st fall over Locarno Pact, Luthers 2nd fall over Imperial flag colours. These showed instability and fragility
Who replaces Ebert as President?
Hindenburg from the right wing parties
Result of the Dawes plan?
Reduced extremist voters temporarily
How much had industry increased?
It had surpassed pre-WW1 production levels by 1928
Nazi Party votes during the Golden Years?
1924 - 32 seats
1928 - 12 seats
What did the Nazi Party do during this period?
Bamberg conference (1926), propaganda, Hitler’s youth set up
