Gustav Stresemann and the Golden Age of Weimar
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- Was Stresemann the cause of the golden age of Weimar
- Foreign relations
- Yes
- Entrance into the League of Nations, 1926
- Stresemann was greatly respected by the allied countries
- Locarno Pact, 1925
- France, Belgium and Germany agreed to respect each others borders
- Kellog-Briand Pact, 1928
- Promised to not use war to resolve disputes or conflicts
- Entrance into the League of Nations, 1926
- No
- Stresemann was very reliant on support from the USA
- Dawes (1924) and Young (1929) Plans
- Can be argued that there was no golden age without the USA
- Stresemann was very reliant on support from the USA
- Yes
- Political
- able to achieve majority vote
- Leader of the SPD
- Formed part of 6 coalition governments
- No
- Not only stresemann
- other parties were more willing to compromise with Stresemann
- Economic
- Introduced new currency
- Rentenmark
- Backed by land used for agriculture and business
- Dawes Plan (1924)
- reduced payments
- Germany would use loans to pay GB and FR, who would then pay USA for outstanding war loans
- Charles Dawes
- Young Plan (1929)
- Further reduction made to reparations
- Owen Young
- Helped to restart the German economy
- Introduced new currency
- Culture/Social
- Architecuture
- Walter Gropius
- Bauhaus movement
- use of glass, steel and other raw materials
- Stresemann was not the cause of golden age of culture
- Art
- George Grosz
- New objectivity
- Music
- Atonal music
- Schonberg
- Atonal music
- Berlin Nightclubs
- very accepting of the LGBT community
- greatly influenced by American and British Jazz
- Women
- Sexual freedoms
- Divorce and abortions were legal
- Right to vote - political freedoms
- Young people
- Middle class benefited the most
- Architecuture
- Overall Judgement -Stresemann was the cause of the golden age of Weimar in terms of establishing foreign relations, the economy and politics but not culturally
- Foreign relations
- Culture/Social
- Architecuture
- Walter Gropius
- Bauhaus movement
- use of glass, steel and other raw materials
- Stresemann was not the cause of golden age of culture
- Art
- George Grosz
- New objectivity
- Music
- Atonal music
- Schonberg
- Atonal music
- Berlin Nightclubs
- very accepting of the LGBT community
- greatly influenced by American and British Jazz
- Women
- Sexual freedoms
- Divorce and abortions were legal
- Right to vote - political freedoms
- Young people
- Middle class benefited the most
- Architecuture
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