The Golden Age of the Weimar 1924-1928

Question 1

What are the three ways that Stresemann stabilizes the economy in 1923?

Answer 1

Ends passive resistance
Issues the Reichsmark
Cuts 300,000 civil servants

Question 2

The number of companies that went bankrupt rose from 233 in 1923 to how many in 1924?

Answer 2

Over 6000

Question 3

What economic policy in 1924 in response to reparations made payments more manageable, although it was bitterly called ‘an economic armistice’ and there would be an 800 million loan from the USA?

Answer 3

The Dawes Plan

Question 4

What did the Dawes Plan 1924 result in?

Answer 4

The French left the Ruhr

Question 5

When did industrial output reach 1913 levels?

Answer 5

1929

Question 6

What were Germany allowed to bring in after 1925 because of the TOV?

Answer 6

Tariffs

Question 7

When did wages begin to increase?

Answer 7

1924

Question 8

The number of houses built went from 170,000 in 1925 to how many in 1926?

Answer 8

205,000

Question 9

What did workers view as biased in favour of trade unions and resented the states interference in occupational affairs?

Answer 9

Compulsory arbitration (arbirator solves problems)

Question 10

What did Stresemann say about the German economy?

Answer 10

‘Dancing on a volcano’

Question 11

Who became saddled with debt and weren’t helped by Government measures?

Answer 11

Farmers

Question 12

What event worsened argricultural problems in 1925 and 1926?

Answer 12

Global grain surplus

Question 13

What did farmers initiate in 1928 as a response to foreclosures and low market prices?

Answer 13

Farmers revenge

Question 14

What was agricultural output at by 1929?

Answer 14

3/4 of pre war levels

Question 15

What policy in 1929 reduced reparations to 1.8 billion and put all responsibility on German which made allied forces leave the Rhineland in 1920?

Answer 15

The Young Plan

Question 16

What law did Hugenburg launch in response to The Young Plan that generated 13.8% of electorate support?

Answer 16

‘freedom law’

Question 17

What welfare reform in 1924 brought help to the poor and destitute and became modernised?

Answer 17

Public Assistance system

Question 18

What humiliated the German public when welfare reforms became too expensive, since Germany were supporting 800,000 war veterans, 900,000 orphans and 360,000 war widows?

Answer 18

Means tests

Question 19

What percentage of the workforce were women by 1925?

Answer 19

36%

Question 20

Who had to leave their jobs so ex soldiers could find employment?

Answer 20

Women

Question 21

How many abortions were there in 1930?

Answer 21

10-12,000 per year

Question 22

Who had no representatives in the Reichsrat?

Answer 22

Women

Question 23

How many women were appointed to the Reichstag in 1919?

Answer 23

41

Question 24

What percentage of the unemployed were in the 14-21 age group?

Answer 24

17%

Question 25

What youth group in the 1920s was highly nationalistic and rejected middle class conventions?

Answer 25

Wandervogel

Question 26

Who had prominence in the press, business, and banking?

Answer 26

Jews

Question 27

What Jewish newspaper was the driving force behind the moderate liberal DDP?

Answer 27

Berliner Tageblatt

Question 28

Which Jew controlled the huge electrical engineering firm AEG?

Answer 28

Rathanau

Question 29

What did German Jews wish to do?

Answer 29

Assimilate

Question 30

What scandal in 1925 provided immunition for financial anti semitic ideology?

Answer 30

Barmat Scandal

Question 31

When did 60% of people vote for pro republicans?

Answer 31

May 1924

Question 32

How many coalitions were there between 1923 and 1930?

Answer 32

7

Question 33

What was the single largest party in the Reichstag?

Answer 33

The SPD

Question 34

Which party supported industrialists and was essential for any coalition?

Answer 34

The Centre Party

Question 35

Which party was liberal and in decline?

Answer 35

The DDP

Question 36

Which conservative party was committed to parliamentary democracy and participated in coalitions?

Answer 36

The DVP

Question 37

Which conservative nationalist party was anti democratic and suffered a significant loss of support in 1928?

Answer 37

The DNVP

Question 38

Which nationalist party had 75,000 by 1927 but lost 100,000 votes in the 1928 general election?

Answer 38

NSDAP (Nazis)

Question 39

Which party was the largest communist party outside of Russia and was dedicated to overthrowing the republic and had numerous risings such as in Saxony and Hamburg?

Answer 39

The KPD

Question 40

Who was elected in 1925 as a nationalist, militant figure who was revered by the right and who's election seemed a step away from parliamentary democracy?

Answer 40

Hindenburg

Question 41

Which pact in 1925 let Germany into the League of Nations and established Germany as an equal partner in negotiations with the three major powers?

Answer 41

The Locarno Pact

Question 42

What was renewed in April 1926 that demonstrated that Stresemann secretly wanted to revise the Eastern frontier?

Answer 42

The Treaty of Berlin

Question 43

What was secretly done in the Golden Age through enlisting the army for intense training for short periods and unofficial paramilitary groups?

Answer 43

Rearmament

Question 44

What pact was a symbolic agreement of avoiding war that lacked proper enforcement?

Answer 44

The Kellog Briand Pact

Question 45

What was the result of Stresemann's foreign policies?

Answer 45

End of allied occupation

Question 46

How did Germany finance the Golden Age?

Answer 46

Foreign loans

Question 47

How much foreign money was Germany given between 1924 and 1929?

Answer 47

25 billion

Question 48

Germany's economic growth after 1924 exceeded that of who?

Answer 48

Britain and France

Question 49

What did the SPD reintroduce and 'overhaul'?

Answer 49

The Bismarckian welfare state

Question 50

The Unemployment Insurance Law required workers and employees to make contributions to a national scheme for unemployment welfare. When was this introduced?

Answer 50

1927

Question 51

Between 1924 and 1931 more than two million new homes were built. How many were renovated or expanded?

Answer 51

200,000

Question 52

How much had homelessness reduced by 1926?

Answer 52

More than 60%

Question 53

In 1927 real wages increased by nine per cent. How much did they increase further in 1928?

Answer 53

12%

Question 54

Germany's industrial workforce was the best where?

Answer 54

In Europe

Question 55

Who did not enjoy the wage rises of the industrial sector, nor could they always access the benefits of the Weimar welfare state?

Answer 55

White collar workers

Question 56

By 1929 Germany was producing what per cent more than before the war?`

Answer 56

33%

Question 57

How many middle classworkers were seeking employment by 1928?

Answer 57

184,000

Question 58

Who did the mittlestand believe were prioritising the working class?

Answer 58

SPD

Question 59

The mittelstand believed the SPD were achieving "____ through strength'

Answer 59

Socialism

Question 60

If the working classes had the SPD and the KPD, which parties did the mittelstand have to turn to?

Answer 60

None

Question 61

Which party manipulated the mittelstand?

Answer 61

NSDAP

Question 62

.The NSDAP made extensive use of which slogan and its agrarian, nationalist and racial connotations to lure farmers?

Answer 62

Blut und Boden (Blood and Soil)

Question 63

Who did farmers blame for their downfalls that were supported by the NSDAP?

Answer 63

Jewish bankers and business people

Question 64

What type of art came into prominence in the Weimar period?

Answer 64

Avant Garde

Question 65

Andrew Dickson: [The Weimar culture was] a roaring surge of modernist art, music, theatre, design, dance and film, when the constraints of 19th-century____

Answer 65

manners and mores were torn down

Question 66

What school did Architect Walter Gropius found that became an artistic movement as well as an experimentation?

Answer 66

Bauhaus

Question 67

Wilhelm Wagenfeld’s what brought high concept modernism to mass consumers?

Answer 67

Bublous lamp

Question 68

Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill created operas like 'Der Dreigroschenopera' in 1928, that satirised what?

Answer 68

The capitalist system

Question 69

What was Brecht and Weill's play 'Der Dreigroschenopera' criticised as?

Answer 69

‘noxious cesspool'

Question 70

How many times was 'Der Dreigroschenopera' performed across 50 cities?

Answer 70

4000

Question 71

In the 1920s, female elected officials were three times more common in Germany than in the UK. How many more times were they common than in America?

Answer 71

6`

Question 72

George Grosz and John Heartfield created the photomontage. What were their collages always filled with?

Answer 72

Strong political messages

Question 73

Some what decried militarism and the discredited traditional values of German society?

Answer 73

Artists

Question 74

Otto Dix’sy what questions the costs of war in fifty drawings?

Answer 74

Der Kreig

Question 75

In 1928, what percent of people voted pro Weimar?

Answer 75

76%

Question 76

What percentage of the vote did the KPD get in 1928?

Answer 76

10.6%

Question 77

In the 1920s, how many LGBT bars and clubs were there in Berlin?

Answer 77

100

Question 78

Who says that “Desperate people in poverty were being promised jobs, that they could ‘take back control’ and ‘make Germany great again.’”?

Answer 78

Bernard

Question 79

Why was the Locarno Pact in 1925 significant?

Answer 79

French withdrew from Rhineland No more occupation of the ruhr First time Germany accepted Western Border

Question 80

What were some limitations of the Locarno Pact?

Answer 80

Eastern borders not recognised

Question 81

What did the Treaty of Berlin in 1926 signal?

Answer 81

That Stresemann hadn't abandoned his desire to secure a revision of the Eastern borders