Stresemann

Question 1

Who was he? (2)

Answer 1

Chancellor and foreign minister.
Had an impact on stabilising Germany.

Question 2

What was his plan? (3)

Answer 2

1. Making economy stable, gain respect for Germany from other countries.
2. These countries would then trade more with them.
3. This would make Germany more confident when in the Weimar Republic.

Question 3

What was the Retenmark? (3)

Answer 3

1. Set up a new state bank the Retenmark
2. Issued new currency
3. Currency had real value and Germans trusted it

Question 4

What was the Reichsbank? (2)

Answer 4

1. Newly independent bank was given control of new currency.
2. German money was now trusted at home and abroad.

Question 5

What was the Dawes Plan? (2) what did this mean for inflation?

Answer 5

1. Reparations were temporarily reduced to $50 million per year.
2. US banks agreed to give loans to German industry. They loaned $25 billion between 1924 and 1930.
3. Inflation was brought down.

Question 6

What was the Young Plan? (2)

Answer 6

1. Set up by the allies and headed by and American banker Owen Young.
2. Reduced total reparations from £6,6 billion to £2 billion and given 59 years to pay.

Question 7

What was The Ruhr?

Answer 7

1. Reassured allies that they would get their reparation payments
2. Improved Weimar Republics economy to the benefit of working class and middle class Germans.

Question 8

What was the Locarno Pact?

Answer 8

1. Accepted the 1919 border with France
2. Demilitarised Rhineland
3. Britain, France, Italy, Belgium

Question 9

Why was the Locarno pact popular? (2)

Answer 9

1. Germany is treated as an equal
2. Germany trusts Weimar

Question 10

Why was the Locarno Pact unpopular?

Answer 10

1. Some hate that they agreed to Versailles

Question 11

What was the League of Nations? When did Germany join?

Answer 11

1. Powerful countries discussed ways of solving world’s problems without War.
2. Germany was not invited until 1926.

Question 12

Why was the League of Nations popular? (2)

Answer 12

1. Boost to the moderate parties who supported Stresemann.
2. Boosted the confidence of most Germans in the Weimar Republic.

Question 13

Why was the League of Nations unpopular?

Answer 13

Many extremists hates the Treaty Versailles and wanted nothing to do with other countries.

Question 14

What was the Kellog Brinade? (2)

Answer 14

1. 1928 Germany and 61 other countries signed it
2. All promised not to use war to achieve the foreign policy aims.

Question 15

Why was the Kellog Brinade popular? (2)

Answer 15

1. Germany showed herself to be a peace loving country.
2. Brought more respect to Weimar Republic and grace him a boost in the eyes of the public.

Question 16

What was the Kellog Brinade unpopular?

Answer 16

Many extremists disagreed - it had a done nothing to remove the hated terms of Versailles which still restricted German strength reparations, land, and military restrictions.