Unit 2: The Golden Age (1924-1928) Flashcards
(8 cards)
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April 1924 - Dawes plan
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- Charles Dawes proposed a plan to resolve Germany’s economic instability.
- Requires France to evacuate Ruhr within 12 months.
- Restricts unilateral action against Germany.
- Sets reparations at 132 billion gold marks to be repaid over 5 years.
- Allies receive 800 million US loans.
- Fears France’s refusal of repayments.
- Streseman recognizes repayment as key to economic rehabilitation.
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September 1924 - End of passive resistance
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- ‘Passive resistance’ meant that whilst the workers were on strike fewer industrial goods were being produced, which weakened the economy still further.
- The German government ordered workers to follow a policy of ‘passive resistance’ – refusing to work or co-operate with the foreign troops and in return the government continued to pay their wages.
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December 1924 - Hitler released from prison
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Hitler was released from prison
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1925 – Locarno Treaty
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- Signed on December 1st
- Signed inviolability of Franco-German frontiers and Belgian-Germana frontiers.
- Remilitarization of Rhineland.
- Resulted in peace and reconciliation but faced contrasting views between Germany and France.
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1925 - Mein Kampf published
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- Part political diatribe and personal memoir.
- Expresses Hitler’s racist ideology.
- Identifies Aryan as “genius” and Jew as “parasite.”
- Advocates for Germans seeking East living space.
- Criticizes Slavs and Russian Marxists.
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May 1925 - Hindenburg president
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Hindenburg becomes the President of the Weimar Republic
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September 1926 – Germany accepted into League of Nations
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- League of Nations accepted Germany as a permanent member.
- In the same year, Stresemann won the Nobel Peace Prize because his political policies brought stability to the Weimar Republic.
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1927 – Social Welfare Reform
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- National unemployment insurance system.
- introduced to provide benefits for the unemployed.
- financed by contributions from workers and employers.
