Stresemann And Golden Age

Question 1

When and how did Stresemann end passive resistance in the Ruhr?

Answer 1

August 1923, co operated with the French and begun to pay back the money they were owed

Question 2

When and what did stresemann do to end hyperinflation?

Answer 2

November 1923, Destroyed old currency and introduces the rentenmark, limiting the amount of it in circulation, later renamed the Reichsmark

Question 3

When was the Dawes plan and what did it involve?

Answer 3

1924, reparations decreased to £50million per year, US banks loaned $25billion between 1924 and 1930

Question 4

When was the young plan and what did it involve?

Answer 4

1929, Reduced the amount Germany had to pay in reparations from £6.6billion to 2 billion, increased payback time to 59 years

Question 5

By 1929 how many homes had been built and what other three types of buildings had been improved?

Answer 5

3 million homes built, hospitals and roads and schools had been improved

Question 6

When was the Locarno treaty and what did it involve?

Answer 6

1925- between GB, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany. Germany accepted its new borders and the permanent demilitarisation of the Rhineland

Question 7

When did Germany join the League of Nations?

Answer 7

1926

Question 8

When was the Kellogg-Briand pact formed and what did it involve?

Answer 8

1928, agreed no future wars between 65 countries to solve foreign policy problems

Question 9

In summary, why were stresemann’s years in power viewed as the golden age?(6 reasons)

Answer 9

Improved standard of living, more culture, more women employed and going to universities, economic recovery, improved foreign relations, more stable government

Question 10

Why may some say it was not the golden age?(5reasons)

Answer 10

Recovery was based on foreign debt, unemployment never fell below 1million, some women refused to give up their traditional lifestyles, depression in farming, 4 million people signed a petition to stop the Young Plan

Question 11

What happened when America demanded loans back after the WSC?(3)

Answer 11

Banks went out of business, production fell by 40%, German government increased taxes

Question 12

What happened with unemployment after the WSC? 3 facts

Answer 12

Rose from 1.6 million in 1929 to 6.2 million in 1932, 40% of factory workers unemployed in 1932, 60% of the unemployed were under 30

Question 13

Why was Bruning unpopular?

Answer 13

He increased taxes, people nicknamed him the “hunger chancellor” due to the starvation in Germany

Question 14

How many seats did the Nazis and the communists each win in the 1930 election and why?

Answer 14

107, 77, people were looking to the extremist parties for answers

Question 15

By how much did the number of women working increase between 1907 and 1925?

Answer 15

1.7 million (but the percentage of women in work rose less than 1%)

Question 16

What jobs did women take on?

Answer 16

White collar jobs (usually based in offices) ,mainly done by single women under 25

Question 17

What was the impact of the golden age on the Nazis?

Answer 17

In the election of 1928 they only received 2.8% of votes therefore gained only 12 seats in the reichstag

Question 18

What happened when women begin to take part in a greater range of sports?

Answer 18

In 1928 Hilde Krahwinkel won a gold medal for 800m

Question 19

How did political violence die down in the golden age?

Answer 19

Between 1924-29 no major political figures were assassinated

Question 20

How many coalitions were there 1924-29?

Answer 20

6

Question 21

What percentage of the unemployed received no help from the government after WSC?

Answer 21

27% because the government took away unemployment benefits

Question 22

In what three ways did life improve for the working classes?

Answer 22

1927 Labour Exchanges, 1927 Unemployment Insurance Act, 3 million homes built

Question 23

What did the Great Coalition involve?

Answer 23

Pro democracy parties (SDP, centre party and Stresemann’s ‘German people’s party’, DVP) united together to resist criticisms from smaller extremist parties and gain enough members of the Reichstag to pass laws it needed

Question 24

When was the Unemployment Insurance Act and what did it involve?

Answer 24

1927, charged workers 3% of their wages and provided around 60 marks a week in employment and sickness benefits of they fell out of work

Question 25

How much did unemployment drop between 1926 and 1928?

Answer 25

2 million to 1.3 million

Question 26

How much did the average number of working hours a week decrease by between 1925 and 1927?

Answer 26

4

Question 27

How much did wages rise between 1925 and 1928?

Answer 27

25%

Question 28

When and what was introduced to fund building associations?

Answer 28

15% rent tax in 1925

Question 29

How many homes were built between 1925-1929 by private companies and how many by new building associations?

Answer 29

37,000 by private, 64,000 by new associations

Question 30

When was the Reich pension law and what did it state?

Answer 30

1920. Pensions were paid throughout the 1920s to 750,000 war veterans, 400,000 war widows and 200,000 parents of dead serviceman

Question 31

Why did the Arts improve?

Answer 31

Economic recovery after 1924 could finance it

Question 32

What did the three main types of art express?

Answer 32

Modernism encouraged embracing the future and seeing beauty, expressionism reflected the thoughts and feelings of the artist, new objectivism showed life as it was including poverty

Question 33

In jobs women and men did the same work how much less were women paid?

Answer 33

33%

Question 34

By how much did the number of female doctors increase between 1925-1932?

Answer 34

2500-5000

Question 35

What were 9 effects of the Depression?

Answer 35

Communism gained 6 million new members, 17 million people supported by the dole, unemployment reached 6.2 million by 1932, Russian middle class forced to move abroad, social democrats walked out of parliament, wages cut, prices rose, thousands of small businesses collapsed, in three years German production halved