History 11/10/17 Quiz - Rentenbank etc.

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What was the name of the new Chancellor and foreign secretary?
Gustav Stresemann
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What month and year did he become the Chancellor and foreign secretary?
August 1923
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When did he resign chancellorship?
November 1923
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Until when did he remain foreign secretary?
1929 (6 years)
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What was his most important aim?
Economic foreign policy and improving political situation by making people feel more confident under the Weimar government and reduce support of extreme parties.
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What is the name of the left-wing party?
Communist Party
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What is the name of the extreme right-wing party?
the National Socialist German Worker's Party
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When was the Rentenbank established?
November 1923
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What value was the Rentenmark tied to?
Gold
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When was the independent Reichbank established?
August 1924
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What were the benefits?
German money was trusted at home and abroad. Hyperinflation was at an end. Recovery of German business and employment.
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What were the downfalls?
It could not bring back savings.
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Who solved the non-payment of reparations (nationality/occupation)?
Charles G. Dawes - American banker
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When was the Dawes Plan agreed?
April 1924
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Who agreed to it?
Gustav Stresemann
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What were the terms of the Dawes Plan?
Reparations temporarily reduced to £50 million per year. US banks agreed to loan $25 billion between 1924 and 1930
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How did the allies react/feel?
They were reassured of payment, so Stresemann called of German worker's passive resistance and France agreed to leave the Ruhr.
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What were the primary pros of the Dawes Plan?
Allies were sure they would get reparations so Stresemann stopped Ruhr workers passive resistance and France left the Ruhr.
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What were the secondary pros of the Dawes Plan?
Industrial output doubled between 1923-1928. Employment and input from taxation increased.
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What were the cons of the Dawes plan?
Extreme political parties were furious that Germany had paid reparations and Germany had to depend on America's loans
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Who created the Young Plan?
The Allies and it was headed by American banker, Owen Young
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When was the Young Plan put in place?
August 1929
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What were the terms?
Reduced reparations from £6.6 billion to £2 billion. Further 59 years to pay.
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What were the primary pros?
Lower reparations, France agreed to leave Rhineland, increased confidence for Germans of Weimar
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What were the secondary cons?
'Virtuous cycle' of economic growth - more jobs, spending power and trade
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When did France leave the Rhineland?
1930
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What were the cons of the Young Plan?
£50 million a year. Stretched till 1988. Lots of opposition by extreme parties: Nazi Party (Adolf Hitler) felt it was 'passing on the penalty to the unborn'
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In 1929, what percentage and number of people were in favour of the Young Plan?
85% and 35 million people.
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When did Stresemann sign the Locarno Pact?
1st December 1925
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Who was involved and what was the name given to them?
Italy, France, Belgium, Britain, Germany - Five Powers
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Why was it different to the Treaty of Versailles?
Terms were agreed on equal terms with Germany - not imposed.
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What were the agreements of the Locarno Pact?
Accepted 1919 border with France, France promised peace with Germany, Germany and Allies agreed to demilitarise Rhineland, 5 powers allowed Germany enter open talks in League of Nations.
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What were the pros of the Locarno Pact?
Made war in Europe less likely, Germany treated equally, boosted prestige of Weimar and German people.
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What were the cons of the Locarno Pact?
Extreme parties resented that Versailles borders had been confirmed.
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Why did Germany agree to border with France?
To improve relations.
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What were the pros of the Locarno Pact?
Boosted moderate parties' confidence and Weimar's.
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What were the cons of the Locarno Pact?
Symbol of the hated Treaty of Versailles, treaty terms still in place, Extremist party, didn't like border with France.
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Who founded it and what year?
Allies 1920
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When were Germany accepted and what part did they play?
1926 - member of council making great decisions.
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When was pact signed?
August 1928
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How many signed it?
Germany and 61 others.
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What was the aim?q
To achieve foreign policy aims without war.
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Who created it?
2 US and French ministers
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How did America feel?
Saw it as an opportunity to assist peace as they were not in Legaue of Nations.
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What were the pros of the Kellogg-Briand pact?
Included Germnay, made Weimar more repected and Germany strong again.
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What were the cons of the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
Didn't remove hated treaty terms.
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What % of the possible workforce was unemployed in 1924?
4%
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In 1926, how may were unemployed?
2 million
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What did the Unempolyment Insurance Act of 1927 do?
16, 400, 000 workers gave 3% of salary in return for an average of 60 mks a week in unemployment/sickness benefits if they fell out of work.
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How many were unemployed in 1928?
1.3 million
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What are real wages?
Value of goods that wages bought.
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How much did real wages increase by 1925-8?
25%
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In 1925, how many hours did people work a week?
50
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In 1927, how many hours did people work in a week?
46
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In 1923, how many homes was Germany short of?
1, 000, 000
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In 1925, what % of tax rent was used to fund building associations?
15
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In 1925-9, how many homes did private companies build?
37, 000
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How many houses did new building associations build?
64, 000
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GEHAG built how many homes in Berlin?
10, 000
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1920 Reich Pension Law gave pensions to how many war veterans?
750, 000
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How many parents of dead servicemen?
200, 000
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How many war widows?
400, 000
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What was the number of students in higher education before WWI?
70 000
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What did it increase to?
110 000
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Who was in power 1918?
Social Democrats
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When did women gain right to vote and go for elections?
November 1918
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What % of women voted when they gained the right?
90
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In 1932, how many wee elected for the Reichstag?
112
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What % were female in the Reichstag?
10
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What did Article 109 state?
Women had equal rights, marriage rights and job rights.
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In 1918, what % of women were at work?
75%
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In 1925, what % of women were at work?
33%
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How many women were judges?
36
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What were women expected to do after marriage?
Give up work.
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What were the pros?
Plenty of part-time work in shops and offices. 1925-32, number of doctors doubled to 5000.
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What were the 'new women' adverts about?
Women bought more clothes, went out more and unaccompanied, makeup, short hair, revealing clothes, smoked, drank
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How did the number of births decrease from 1913-25?
128/1000 to 80
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How did the number of divorces rise from 1913-20
27/year/1000 to 60
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Why did people dislike it?
They felt that women needed to be wives and the traditional motherly image.
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