Golden Years

Question 1

When were the Golden Years?

Answer 1

1924-1929

Question 2

Nightlife positive (GY)

Answer 2

Produced Marlene Dietrich (actress) and Fritz Leung (director)

Question 3

How many dance bands were there in Berlin?

Answer 3

In 1927 there were 900

Question 4

Revolts negative/ positive (GY)

Answer 4

Many of the parties who had revolted now cooperated with the government, but there were 4 different chancellors from 1924-29

Question 5

Culture positive (GY)

Answer 5

Artists and writers were allowed free expression, George Grosz produced many powerful paintings

Question 6

Design positive (GY)

Answer 6

Bauhaus design college was set up; its first exhibition attracted 15,000 visitors

Question 7

Wages positive (GY)

Answer 7

Industrial workers’ wages rose and there was an overall higher standard of living; the government was able to welfare benefits and wages for state employees

Question 8

US loans negative (GY)

Answer 8

The US loans could be called in at any time

Question 9

Economy negative/ positive (GY)

Answer 9

Big businesses did well- they owned about half of Germany’s industrial production; small businesses did not

Question 10

Land negative/ positive (GY)

Answer 10

The value of land in Berlin rose by 700%- although landowners did well, it was very difficult for people looking to buy a property

Question 11

Employment negative (GY)

Answer 11

Unemployment began to rise- it was 6% in the working population by 1928; many farmers were over producin

Question 12

Wages negative (GY)

Answer 12

A university lecturer in 1913 earned 10 times as much as a coal miner, but in the 1920s it was only twice as much

Question 13

Culture negative (GY)

Answer 13

Many villages and towns saw the city culture as moral decline, made worse by American immigrants and Jewish artists; new organisations such as the Wandervogel movement were founded who wanted the return of simple country values

Question 14

Reichstag negative (GY)

Answer 14

Around 30% of the vote regularly went to parties which were opposed to the Republic; the Right-Wing Nationalist Party and the Nazis started to collaborate and make themselves more respectable

Question 15

Design negative (GY)

Answer 15

The Bauhaus college had to be built in Dessau as officials forced it out of Weimar

Question 16

When did Stresemann sign the Locarno Treaty, and what was it?

Answer 16

It was signed in 1925 and it said that he would not try to change Germany’s borders with France and Belgium

Question 17

Foreign Policy negative (GY)

Answer 17

Many Communists attacked the Locarno Treaty as they saw it as part of a plot against the Communist government in Russia

Question 18

When was Hindenburg elected as President, and why was this worrying?

Answer 18

1926, and he was opposed to democracy

Question 19

When was Germany accepted into the League of Nations?

Answer 19

1926- many Nationalists attacked Stresemann for this as they saw it as an acceptance of the ToV

Question 20

In what year did Germany reach the same levels of production as it had before the war?

Answer 20

1928- it was the world’s second greatest industrial power

Question 21

When was the Wall Street Crash?

Answer 21

1929