P6- Stresseman

Question 1

-stresseman’s initals actions in 100 days leading broad coalition

Answer 1

-no passive resistance + pay reparations - conciliated france - evoke sympathy for geramny’s positionÊ

Question 2

-stresseman’s initals actions in 100 days leading broad coalition -who led introduction of retenmark ?

Answer 2

-Hjalmar Schact

Question 3

why did weimar repbulic survive?

Answer 3

-popular anger directed to french – businessmen benefitted from hyperinflationÊ

Question 4

thesis for why weimar republic survived ?

Answer 4

-despite ditress + disillusionment – hostility not yet at unreasonable levels

Question 5

years of 1924-29 percieved as years of ?

Answer 5

-political stabilityÊ

Question 6

economic strengths in recovery years - industrialÊ

Answer 6

-1928 production levels exceed 1913 levelsÊ

Question 7

success - what did parker american economist say ?

Answer 7

-‘since stabilisation in 1924, germany’s reconstruction kept pace w/ europe - essential part in process of european reconstruction’

Question 8

HOWEVER, deceptiveness of industrial recoveryÊ

Answer 8

-uneven growth imports exceed exportsÊ

Question 9

what did Borchardt say about germany ?

Answer 9

-‘slow growth + relatively sick economy - could not have gone on the same way if depression had not occured’

Question 10

social welfare - what in 1927 ?

Answer 10

-compulsory unemployment insurance - 17 million workers covered + more council housingÊ

Question 11

weaknesses in welfare ?

Answer 11

-cost met by increasing debts –> 1928 expenditure 26% GNP - double pre war figureÊ

Question 12

what did stresseman say about 9124-29 economy?

Answer 12

-‘dancing on a volcano’

Question 13

7 govs 1923 - 1930 ?

Answer 13

-2 majorities and longest survived for 21 months

Question 14

stresseman known as ?

Answer 14

-ludendorff’s young manÊ

Question 15

what did stresseman’s early nationalism find expression in ?

Answer 15

-Kaiser’s Weltpolitik (policy to make germany overseas power)

Question 16

what party did Stresseman form?

Answer 16

DVP

Question 17

what did stresseman want - became known as what ?

Answer 17

-became more liberal - constitutional monarchy –> Vernunfrepublikaner (rational republican)

Question 18

stressmans’s main aims w/ allies:

Answer 18

-recognise france’s security concerns + attract sympathy from allies for foreign investmentÊ

Question 19

main terms 1924 dawes planÊ

Answer 19

-reoganise germany currency - international loan 800 million marks from USÊ

Question 20

successes of dawes plan in short termÊ

Answer 20

-‘win for financial realism’ –> cash starved economy gained credit + french leave Ruhr 1925 / mothly installments calculated against germany capacity to payÊ

Question 21

weaknesses of dawes plan in long termÊ

Answer 21

-dependent on american loans - link german fortunes to powerful external forces

Question 22

when was the locarno pact ?

Answer 22

Oct-25

Question 23

main agrrements of locarno?

Answer 23

-boarders franco german accepted // demiliatrisation rhineland permanent // arbitration treaties settled minor disputes peacefully

Question 24

significance of locarno treaties?

Answer 24

-geramny freed from isolation allies / an equal partnerÊ

Question 25

1926 germanyÊ

Answer 25

-joined LON council

Question 26

1928 germany

Answer 26

-kellog briand pact – outlaw war as an ‘instrument of national policy’ – germany working w/ 68 nationsÊ

Question 27

1929 – allies do what + result

Answer 27

-evacuate rhineland - youngs plan 1/4 reparation figure in 1921

Question 28

two views of stressemanÊ

Answer 28

-‘fanatical nationalist’ + ‘great european’

Question 29

positive view of stressemanÊ

Answer 29

-great deal in short time by peaceful methods - inherited dire situation in 1923Ê

Question 30

what did Kolb say about stresseman’s policy ?

Answer 30

astonishingly successful’

Question 31

negative view against stressman (it should be borne in mind that)

Answer 31

–1924-29 climate worked strongly in stresseman’s favour - failed to achieve aim of revising TOV fundamnetally + at death nationalist opposition mobilising itself agaisnt Youngs planÊ

Question 32

negative view of stressemanÊ

Answer 32

-pretending to be a democrat

Question 33

why was stressemna not prepared to drop rapallo treaty ?(treaty friendship w/ USSR)

Answer 33

-germany defence needs to be in heart of europeÊ

Question 34

evidence of revolt against Stresseman (will be counter argued)

Answer 34

1923 Küstrin Putsch - black reichswehr attempt to replace stresseman gov w/ dictatorship - led by bruno Bushrucker

Question 35

disprove evidence of revolt against Stresseman by Küstrin

Answer 35

leaders arrested for high treason + imprisoned - prevented by other reichswher units