Germany- Economy Golden age

Question 1

what party did Stresemann form

Answer 1

DVP

Question 2

how many days did Stresemann serve as Chancellor

Answer 2

‘100 days’ (103 days)

Question 3

what role did Stresemann have between 1923-1929

Answer 3

Foreign minister

Question 4

What was Stresemann’s coalition called and why

Answer 4

‘Great coalition’ as it was the first to include parties from both left and right

Question 5

what were the 3 steps to bring inflation under control

Answer 5

1) end of passive resistance
2) new currency
3) balancing budget

Question 6

what was the new currency called

Answer 6

Rentenmark

Question 7

what was the conversion rate of rentenmark to old marks

Answer 7

1:1 trillion

Question 8

how many civil servants lost their jobs as a response to Stresemann balancing the budget

Answer 8

300,000

Question 9

what four objectives did Stresemann set out with

Answer 9

1) repair Franco-german relations
2) attract US investment
3) maintain german-USSR relations
4) encourage cooperation and peace, especially with Western powers

Question 10

What was the Dawes plan

Answer 10

proposed that Germany should re-start reparations by paying 1000 million marks and this sum should be raised by annual increments over 5 years by 2500 million marks per year.
Germany should receive large loan of 800 million marks from USA to help get the plan started + to allow for heavy investment in German infrastructure.

Question 11

when was the Dawes plan accepted

Answer 11

july 1924

Question 12

by 1925 how many cartels were there

Answer 12

3000

Question 13

what % of germany’s coal production did cartels account for

Answer 13

90%

Question 14

how much did german exports rise between 1925 and 1929

Answer 14

40%

Question 15

how many homes were built in 1926

Answer 15

205,793

Question 16

how long were workers locked out for as a response to increased wages

Answer 16

4 weeks

Question 17

how much did wages increase in 1927 and 1928

Answer 17

1927- 9%
1928- 12%

Question 18

Unemployment stats for: 1925, March 1926, 1929

Answer 18

1925- 1 million
1926- over 3 million
1929- averaged 1.9 million

Question 19

how much did mining companies reduce workforces between 1922 and 1925

Answer 19

136,000

Question 20

what was the Young Plan

Answer 20

obliged Germany to continue paying reparations until 1988 but the final sum was reduced to ¼ of the figure demanded in 1921 and in return Br and Fr agreed to move troops from Rhineland by July 1930

Question 21

who launched a nationwide campaign against the Young plan

Answer 21

Alfred Hugenburg (new leader of DNVP)

Question 22

how many signatures did Hugenburg recieve for the Young Plan

Answer 22

4,135,000

Question 23

what was the freedom law

Answer 23

required the government to deny the war-guilt clause of the Treaty of Versailles, to demand immediate evacuation of the occupied areas and declared that any minister who signed a treaty that involved acceptance of war guilt would be tried for treason.

Question 24

how many votes out of how many needed did the vote for the Freedom Law recieve

Answer 24

5.1m/21m

Question 25

how much did Nazi members grow to in 1929

Answer 25

130,000

Question 26

how much were germanys reparations after the Young plan

Answer 26

£1.8 billion