Stresemann

Question 1

What did NSDAP stand for

Answer 1

National Socialist German Worker’s Party

Question 2

What party did Stresemann belong to

Answer 2

DVP

Question 3

What did Stresemann do (X3)

Answer 3

call off passive resistance
introduce new currency
fend off threats from left + right

Question 4

What was the new currency known as introduced by Stresemann

Answer 4

Rentenmark

Question 5

What did Stresemann do about the Ruhr situation, why?

Answer 5

called off passive resistance

cost of compensating non-productive workers was too great

Question 6

Who did Stresemann know he would come under attack from when sorting out the Ruhr?

Answer 6

The nationalist extreme right

Question 7

Why was Stresemann forced to resign as Chancellor

Answer 7

Social democrats resigned from coalition over differences in way extreme left and right parties were being treated

Question 8

What did the extreme right want to do in terms of the ToV

Answer 8

refuse obeying it

Question 9

Rathenau (murdered in 1922 by organisation consul) suggested what form of policy in foreign relations

Answer 9

Fulfilment policy

Question 10

What did the extreme right think of Rathenau’s and Stresemann’s policy

Answer 10

called it a ‘war-guilt lie’

Question 11

What did the fulfilment policy do?

Answer 11

Advanced German interests via diplomacy

Question 12

What 4 key pacts did Stresemann sign

Answer 12

Dawes
Locarno
Kellogg-Briand
Young

Question 13

What year was the Dawes plan signed and with who

Answer 13

1924

The allies

Question 14

What year was the Locarno pact signed and with who

Answer 14

1925

France Germany Britain and Italy

Question 15

What year was the Young plan signed and with who

Answer 15

1929

USA

Question 16

What was the point of the Dawes plan

Answer 16

reduction in reparation amount payable each year while Allies supervise Germany’s national bank

Question 17

What did the Dawes plan mean for Germany in terms of territorially and economically?

Answer 17

• French forces would end Ruhr occupation

- large loan from USA to restart reparations

Question 18

What did Locarno mean for Germany

Answer 18

it’s western borders (not its eastern) were secured with France

Question 19

In what year was Germany admitted into the LoN

Answer 19

1926

Question 20

What did the Young Plan mean for Germany in terms of reparations

Answer 20

reduction in reparations of more than 2/3

Question 21

What did the Young Plan mean for Germany in terms of territory

Answer 21

Allied forces removed troops from Rhineland 5yrs ahead of schedule

Question 22

In what year did industrial output reach pre-war levels after the hyperinflation

Answer 22

1928

Question 23

What type of prices remained low in the 1920’s and who did this hurt

Answer 23

Food prices - making some farmers go into debt

Question 24

When was the unemployment insurance act put in place

Answer 24

1927

Question 25

Who did the unemployment insurance act protect

Answer 25

working (but not middle) class

Question 26

What did the middle class claim the unemployment insurance act was part of

Answer 26

creation of a 'trade union state'

Question 27

Who was elected as president in 1925

Answer 27

Hindenburg

Question 28

What was Hindenburg's political view

Answer 28

anti-democrat

Question 29

Name a middle class protest party

Answer 29

The Economy Party

Question 30

Who was in control of the SA and what does the name mean

Answer 30

Nazi's | Sturmabteilung

Question 31

Who fought for the communists against the Nazi's

Answer 31

The Red Front Fighters league

Question 32

Who led the KPD while Stresemann was in power

Answer 32

Thalmann

Question 33

Who was the President in 1923

Answer 33

Ebert

Question 34

What did Ebert do in 1923 that undermines some of Stresemann's importance

Answer 34

used his emergency powers of Article 48 to keep the Republic afloat

Question 35

Stresemann later agreed that Germany's economy was unstable - what did he refer to it as?

Answer 35

Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano

Question 36

What type of friendship with the USSR did Stresemann want to maintain

Answer 36

Rapallo-based

Question 37

Which Chancellor and Finance Minister had let the economy slide with deficit financing

Answer 37

Chancellor Cuno and Finance Minister Erzberger

Question 38

Where was the DVP located on the political scale

Answer 38

centre-right

Question 39

What was Stresemann referred to as

Answer 39

a rational republican | vernunftrepublikaner

Question 40

When did Stresemann call off passive resistance

Answer 40

September 1923

Question 41

What did Stresemann do to cut government expenditure

Answer 41

Cut 700,000 public employees

Question 42

When was the new currency introduced and was this before or after passive resistance was called off?

Answer 42

December 1923 After passive resistance called off

Question 43

Who helped Stresemann introduce the new currency

Answer 43

Schacht

Question 44

When was the Kellogg-Briand Pact

Answer 44

1928

Question 45

By what did the DNVP fall by between December 1924 and May 1928

Answer 45

By 1/4

Question 46

When was the DNVP in its peak

Answer 46

December 1924 (20.5%)

Question 47

NSDAP's seats and % in December 1924

Answer 47

14 seats = 3%

Question 48

NSDAP's seats in May 1928

Answer 48

12 seats

Question 49

SPD's % and seats by May 1928

Answer 49

28.8% and 153 seats

Question 50

Did the KPD increase or decrease between 1924-1928 elections

Answer 50

Slight increase of less than 1%

Question 51

In the 1928 election what coalition came about

Answer 51

Hermann Muller's Grand Coalition

Question 52

Who was Hermann Muller a member of

Answer 52

SPD

Question 53

What did the coalition consist of

Answer 53

SPD, DDP, DVP, ZP

Question 54

What % of Reichstag support did Hermann Muller's Grand Coalition receive

Answer 54

60%

Question 55

Which X2 parties could never form a coalition together

Answer 55

SPD and DNVP

Question 56

What parties made up right centre coalitions

Answer 56

ZP, DVP, DNVP

Question 57

What parties made up broad coalitions

Answer 57

DDP, SPD, DVP

Question 58

What type of coalitions agreed on domestic affairs not foreign affairs

Answer 58

right-centre

Question 59

What type of coalitions agreed on foreign affairs not domestic

Answer 59

broad

Question 60

How many governments were there between 1923-1930

Answer 60

7