The Recovery of the Weimar Republic

Question 1

• Who devised a plan to solve this problem?

Answer 1

Gustav Stresseman

Question 2

What plan did he devise?

Answer 2

The Dawes Plan (August 1924)

Question 3

• Describe the Dawes plan

Answer 3

• instalments were reduced to £50 million annually
• USA payed loans to DE (initial of 800 million marks)
• DE payed reparations to FR
• FR and BR payed war loans to USA

Question 4

• What new currency was made?

Answer 4

The Rentenmark

Question 5

• How was this currency controlled?

Answer 5

it was issued in limited amounts and was based on property

Question 6

• Describe the Young Plan

Answer 6

• in 1929, the Reparations Committee decided to decrease payments from £6,600 million to £1850 million
• Germany now had 59 years to repay
• it was criticised by right-wing politicians

Question 7

• Which two people kept political stability between 1924 to 1929?

Answer 7

Gustav Stresemann and Paul von Hindenburg (old Germany war leader)

Question 8

• Describe the Locarno Pact

Answer 8

• Germany agreed to share its border with France, improving relations
• the Allies and Germany agreed to demilitarise Rhineland

Question 9

• What was an effect of the Locarno Pact?

Answer 9

• Germany could join the League of Nations
• LoN was an international body that discussed world problems to avoid war
• it improved the confidence of Germans

Question 10

• Describe the Kellogg-Briand Pact

Answer 10

an agreement between 62 nations which meant they avoided the use of war to achieve objectives

Question 11

• How did the economy improve?

Answer 11

• industrial output doubled by 1928 and passed pre WWI levels
• employment and trade increased

Question 12

• What problems did the economy still face?

Answer 12

• extreme political parties were against Germany paying the loans back
• the recovery was dependant on USA loans, so it remained fragile