The Golden Age

Question 1

What did Stresseman introduce to stabilise the currency

Answer 1

Rentenmark

Question 2

What did Stressemans government do

Answer 2

cut spending and raise taxes

Question 3

What year was the Dawes Plan

Answer 3

1924

Question 4

What happened to the reparations payments in the Dawes Plan

Answer 4

Reparations bill remained unchanged but annual payments reduced for the years 1924-29

Question 5

What else did the Dawes plan include

Answer 5

800 million marks from the USA to fund investment in the German economy
Allies took over German banks and railways
Led to the withdrawal of French and Belgian troops from the Ruhr in 1924-25

Question 6

What did Stresseman call the Dawes Plan

Answer 6

‘no more than an economic armistice’

Question 7

By 1926, what was the unemployment number

Answer 7

3 million

Question 8

What year was the Young Plan signed

Answer 8

1929

Question 9

What did it reduce the reparations bill to

Answer 9

from 6.6 billion to 1.8 billion

Question 10

How long did Germany have to pay the reparations due to the Young Plan

Answer 10

59 years

Question 11

What was another policy of the Young Plan

Answer 11

allies relinquished control over banks and railways

Question 12

What was the ‘new woman’ in Germany

Answer 12

free, independent, sexually liberated and has more employment opportunities

Question 13

How many of lawyers and doctors where Jewish

Answer 13

16% of lawyers where Jewish
11% of doctors where Jewish

Question 14

What was expressionism

Answer 14

emphasised importance of emotion

Question 15

what artists did expressionism influence

Answer 15

Otto Dix
George Grosz

Question 16

Who was the largest part in the Reichstag

Answer 16

SPD

Question 17

What did the centre party represent interests of

Answer 17

The Catholic Church

Question 18

What did the DNVP oppose

Answer 18

Democracy
Monarchy

Question 19

Who did the DNVP represent

Answer 19

Conservative landowners

Question 20

Who did the DNVP attract support from

Answer 20

Industrialists
Professionals

Question 21

Who led the NSDAP

Answer 21

Adolf Hilter

Question 22

When was Hindenburg elected president

Answer 22

1925

Question 23

What was the aims of Stresseman’s policy of fulfilment

Answer 23

A settlement of reparations issue to reduce burden on Germany
End to allied military occupation of Rhineland
Protection of Germans living under foreign countries
Restoration of Germany as a great power

Question 24

When was the Locarno pact

Answer 24

1925

Question 25

What was the Locarno pact

Answer 25

Germany, France, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Poland agreed to settle any disputes peacefully
Germany agreed to keep troops out of Rhineland
French agreed to withdraw troops from Rhineland

Question 26

What did Germany and USSR have in common

Answer 26

both treated as outcast nations, both excluded from the League of Nations
Both had a desire to regain lost territory

Question 27

When was the Treaty of Rapallo

Answer 27

1922

Question 28

What was the Treaty of Rapallo

Answer 28

cooperation between Germany and USSR
Trade and diplomatic relations restored
Germany secretly developed weapons and trained pilots in Soviet Union

Question 29

When and what was the Treaty of Berlin

Answer 29

It was in 1926
It renewed the Treaty of Rapallo

Question 30

When did Germany join the League of Nations

Answer 30

1926