Stresemann's recoveries

Question 1

Currency - positives (3)

Answer 1

~ brought hyperinflation under control
~ prices stabilised
~ banks could start making money again

Question 2

Currency - negatives (3)

Answer 2

~ made peoples savings worthless
~ 1 million marks and was now worth only 1 new mark
~ many people never forgave Stresemann for getting rid of their savings

Question 3

Loans with USA - positives (3)

Answer 3

~ Dawes plan
~ paid for infrastructure and gave money to companies to start making money
~ Young plan - lowered reparations from £32 million to 37,000

Question 4

Loans with USA - negative (3)

Answer 4

~ Some Germans distrusted Americans and their money
~ They felt the USA had helped put them in this position with the Treaty of Versailles
~ They thought the deal was a betrayal

Question 5

French & Ruhr - positive (3)

Answer 5

~ French had occupied Ruhr and refused to move until they were paid reparations
~ The old government told workers to go on a strike so the French didn’t get paid, but then the Germans wouldn’t get their coal
~ Stresemann told the French they would be paid if they left, which they did

Question 6

French & Ruhr - negative (3)

Answer 6

~ Many nationalist Germans thought Stresemann had sold out
~ They thought they should have fought the French army, not promised them money
~ They saw France in the wrong and thought Stresemann had simply given into them

Question 7

Treaties - positives (3)

Answer 7

~ Stresemann signed Locarno pact with France (said they would never ask for lands back
~ This made Germany seem peaceful and they were invited to join the League of Nations
~ This made them part of Europe and they signed the Kellogg Briand Pact with others - made them part of European team

Question 8

Treaties - negative (3)

Answer 8

~ Nationalist Germans couldn’t believe they had promised France not to get their land back
~ They saw this as a betrayal of soldiers who had fought France in the war
~ Wanted another war to get revenge and Stresemann’s peace deals were stopping this

Question 9

New culture - positive (5)

Answer 9

~ The new Weimar culture made Germany the talk of Europe
~ Used new jazz music and film from USA
~ Used new art like expressionism 
~ Allowed new theatres and cabaret
~ Used new designs like Bauhaus

Question 10

New culture - negative (5)

Answer 10

~ traditional Germans hated this new culture
~ they said Stresemann was not a real German
~ they thought the new culture was immoral and sexually dangerous
~ thought it was too foreign and too Jewish
~ didn’t like cabaret making fun of traditional German ideas