DEPRESSION

Question 1

ECONOMIC
Context
4

Answer 1

-German stability relies on American economy
-Wall Street crash - loans back
-Dawes plan 800mil marks
-largest trade investor

Question 2

ECONOMIC
What did USA want?
2

Answer 2

1. Loans back
2. Stop trading (industrial areas hit)
   -exports fell by 61% compared to Britains 11%

Question 3

ECONOMIC
How many marks did the Dawes plan take from American loan?

Answer 3

800mil marks

Question 4

ECONOMIC
exports statistics compared to England

Answer 4

fell 61% compared to England 11%
(because of halter of trade)

Question 5

ECONOMIC
Run of the banks. Meaning?

Answer 5

People withdraw money before banks go bankrupt and lose money

Question 6

ECONOMIC
How many Germans unemployed?
Representative?

Answer 6

1/3
No because doesn’t count women

Question 7

ECONOMIC
What groups in particular struggled?
2

Answer 7

1. Industrial areas - trade down
2. Farmers. Struggled in golden age. Lose farm = lose home

Question 8

SOCIAL
Welfare benefits not good. Why?
2

Answer 8

1. quickly overwhelmed
2. 1930 had to turn to local benefits - unfair because depended on where you lived

Question 9

SOCIAL
Diseases

Answer 9

TB and rickets from malnutrition

Question 10

SOCIAL
poverty diets

Answer 10

too little to live on too much to die from

Question 11

SOCIAL
Shanty towns

Answer 11

Rows of tents

Question 12

SOCIAL
4 main social

Answer 12

1. welfare
   2.diseases
   3.poverty diet
   4.shanty towns

Question 13

SOCIAL YOUTH
main youth

Answer 13

1. % of employed
2. culture clash
3. extremist groups
4. emergency labour groups

Question 14

SOCIAL YOUTH
% if unemployed

Answer 14

40%

Question 15

SOCIAL YOUTH
Culture clash with middle ahed

Answer 15

-crime didn’t increase but accusations did
-crimes increased

Question 16

SOCIAL YOUTH
Extremist groups
polarisation

Answer 16

-KPD - wild cliques
-Nazis - Hitler youth
(food, uniform, work and purpose)

Question 17

SOCIAL YOUTH
Emergency labour schemes

Answer 17

-Emergency - highly below minimum wage

Question 18

SOCIAL WOMEN
Double earners

Answer 18

If women had husbands and also worked they were discriminated against for taking jobs
by right wing

Question 19

SOCIAL WOMEN
Law passed to fire all civil servants. Year?

Answer 19

1932

Question 20

SOCIAL WOMEN
How many reich postal service women fired

Answer 20

1000

Question 21

SOCIAL WOMEN
3 main social

Answer 21

1. double earners
2. fire civil servants
3. reich postal women

Question 22

POLITICAL
Who ran the new grand coalition?
Why was it grand?

Answer 22

Herman Muller
Both left and right

Question 23

POLITICAL
Why did Mullers grand coalition collapse?

Answer 23

Polarisation during depression
Resigned

Question 24

POLITICAL
Who replaced Muller as chancellor?

Answer 24

Bruning ‘the hunger chancellor’
-right wing
-raised taxes and cut spending

Question 25

POLITICAL Why was democracy officially dead? 3

Answer 25

1. the grand coalition collapsed 2. article 48 misused because Muller didn't get majority (caused 1930 election) 3. Nazis overrule meetings with guns

Question 26

POLITICAL 1930s election results?

Answer 26

people turned to extremist parties KPD 1mil votes Nazi 6.7 votes

Question 27

POLITICAL Nazis killed democracy with guns and shoutings at meetings. Result?

Answer 27

Reichtag met once between feb - oct 1931

Question 28

POLITICAL Violence. Gang names?

Answer 28

right - SA left - red front fighters break up each others meetings