weimar Flashcards
parties in the first coalition government
SPD, DDP, Zentrum
reparations bill
132 billion marks
cost of a loaf of bread at the height of hyperinflation
200 billion marks (november)
when did the cost of printing a note become higher than its value?
autumn 1923
stresemann’s new currency and when it was introduced
nov 1923, rentenmark
when did germany join the league of nations
1926
what % of the 1928 vote was for pro-weimar parties?
76%
when did agriculture start to decline?
1927
weimar art movements
bauhaus, new objectivity
dawes plan
800 million mark loan, introduced 1924
young plan
reduced total reparations by 2/3, 1929
wall st crash month
october 1929
unemployment number in 1932
6 million
date hitler was appointed as chancellor
30 jan 1933
number of widows post-ww1
600,000
% of land lost in tov
10%
% of population lost in tov
12.5%
% of coal lost in tov
16%
war guilt clause- number
231
communist revolts- names and dates
jan 1919- spartacist uprising
apr 1919- bavarian soviet
mar 1920- ruhr uprising
(sbr)
right wing revolts- names and dates
mar 1920- kapp putsch
nov 1923- munich putsch
minimum unemployment across the whole of stresemann’s leadership
1.3 million
capacity of the unemployment system
800k
nsdap seats in all elections
1928- 12
1930- 107
jul 1932- 230
nov 1932- 196
what % of the july 1932 vote was for pro-weimar parties?
43%
kpd seats in all elections
1928- 54
1930- 77
jul 1932- 89
nov 1932- 100
how much did exports rise while stresemann was in power?
40%
when did the mark start to decline?
spring 1921
what did stresemann do about pre-1923 inflation?
encouraged it- would help gain foreign loans etc
who had initially encouraged american economic support?
rathenau
who drafted the weimar constitution and why was he significant?
preuss- he was jewish
examples of people who supported the locarno pact
chamberlain, mussolini
treaty signed with russia- name date aims
treaty of rapallo
1922
renounced territorial and financial claims with the ussr
emergency powers article
48
how many times was the article used in 1923-4?
63 by ebert
examples of post war chaos
post war economic problems led to rioting, looting, theft etc that the police couldn’t handle- often left to right-wing paramilitaries
post ww1 production compared to pre
2/3
where was land lost from in the tov?
west prussia, poland and Czechoslovakia
number of different cabinets and why its not acc as bad as it sounds
20- but a lot of them had the same members
how long did the longest government last
18 months
may 24 nazi seats
32
no of houses built during the golden years
3 million
nazi party reorganisation
bamberg
farming wages vs national avg
half
company that gave nazis half their election funds in 1933
ig farben
radio % by 1939
70
