1919-1924 Flashcards
(28 cards)
What was war victims’ benefit
- 2.5 million people benefited from
- 1920
- 40% of national expenditure
- Compensated families for lost ones leading to loss of income and assisted veterans
Unemployment in 1921 vs GB
1.8% vs 17% in GB
How many die of starvation in the 1918-1919 winter
750,000
1923 Pogrom
30,000 workers in Jewish Quarter of Berlin Nov 1923
Who wrote “Decline of the West”
Oswald Spengler
Written 1918, reissued in 1923
1 rentenmark was valued at what
1tn mark
How many printers printing money at 1923 high point
2000
How many business went bankrupt as a consequence of the rentenmark
6000
Inflation Growth
1920 is at 100%
July 1922 is at 50%/month
Who is appointed Currency Commissar
Hjalmar Schacht in Aug 1923
How much vote goes for democratic parties in first elections
80%
Where did first assembly meet instead of Berlin
Weimar Feb 1919
When is Hugo Haase shot in front of reichstag
Oct 1919
When is DAP renamed NSDAP
Feb 1920 - also the 25 point program
When does Hitler become leader of NSDAP
July 1921
When is Matthias Erzberger Shot
Aug 1921
When is SA established
August 1921
Upper Silesia Partition
60% vote to join Germany but LoN partitions nonetheless in Oct 1921
When is Rathenau Shot
June 1922 - assassins only get 4 years
Right wing political assassinations
from 1919-1923, 354 assassinations
Law against militias
July 1922 - disbands OC
Treaty of Rapallo
1922, pledge of neutrality with USSR, closer ties
When is Ruhr occupied
11 January 1923, 100,000 Belgium + French troops there by end of 1923
How many Germans killed or expelled in Ruhr
132
150,000 expelled
