Weimar Germany - Stresemann

Weimar Germany - Stresemann

Stresemann was Chancellor, then Foreign Minister from November 1923, he:

• Most important thing - 1923 organised the Great Coalition of moderate, pro-democracy parties in the Reichstag - government could make laws
• Called off passive resistance in the Ruhr
• Resumed reparations payments
• Introduced new currency (Retenmark)
• Germany became a permanent member of the League of Nations in 1926
• Causing French and Belgium troops to withdraw from the Ruhr

Dawes Plan:

• By Charles Dawes
• Large American loans for new factories
• Providing jobs and wealth
• Reparations payments were based on what…