Impact of the Treaty of Versailles on Germany
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- Created on: 01-04-15 13:15
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- Impact of the Treaty on Germany
- Germany was virtually bankrupt
- National income was around a third of what it had been in 1913
- Industrial Production was around two thirds of what it had been in 1913
- War left 600,000 widows and 2 million children without fathers
- By 1925, the state was spending about one third of its budget on war pensions
- The war had deepened divisions in German Society
- During the war women had to work in factories and many saw this as damaging traditional family values and society as a whole
- Many German workers were bitter about the restrictions placed on their earnings during the war whilst the factory workers earnt fortunes
- There were huge gaps between the living standards of the rich and the poor
- Germany had a revolution and became an unstable democratic republic
- Stresses of war lead to the revolution in October- November 1918
- Many ex-soldiers and civilians despised the new democratic leaders and began believed that Hindenburg had been betrayed
- Germany was virtually bankrupt
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