Stresemann and the Golden Years

Question 1

What was the Dawes Plan?

Answer 1

Agreed reparation payments would gradually rise to maximum in 5 years - proposed a loan of 8000 million marks for Germany

Question 2

What was the old currency? What was it replaced by?

Answer 2

Reichsmark and the Rentenmark

Question 3

What did Germany become heavily dependent on?

Answer 3

Foreign loans

Question 4

When was there a depression in agriculture and why?

Answer 4

1927, overproduction

Question 5

What % of the vote did the Nazis get in 1928?

Answer 5

Less than 3%

Question 6

Who was elected president in 1925?

Answer 6

Hindenburg

Question 7

What social improvements were made?

Answer 7

• Wages increased
• 8 hr days
• Standard of living increased
• Welfare benefits/pensions

Question 8

What social problems remained?`

Answer 8

• Farmers = earn 1/2 national average (1929)
• Extreme wealth/poverty
• Level of taxation

Question 9

What was the Locarno Treaty and when?

Answer 9

Guaranteed Germany’s borders with France and Belgium, not in the East, 1925

Question 10

When did Germany join the League of Nations?

Answer 10

1926

Question 11

When was the Young Plan signed and what was it?

Answer 11

1929, reduced reparations and troops to withdraw from Rhineland

Question 12

How successful were the Golden years?

Answer 12

• Signs of recovery and stability but:
• Economy burdened by war
• Short lived government