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The Weimar Republic under Stresemann 1923-1929 - Coggle Diagram
The Weimar Republic under Stresemann 1923-1929
Problems
Politics
Nazis and Communists were building up their party organisations.
There were four different chancellors and it was only the influence of party leaders which held the party coalitions together.
30 per cent of the vote regularly went to parties opposed to the Republic.
The right-wing Nationalist Party and the NAzis began to collaborate closely and make themselves appear more respectable.
German people elected Hindenburg as President in 1926 he was opposed to democracy.
Culture
Villagers saw the culture of the cities as a representation of moral decline, made worse by American inmigrants and Jewish artists and musicians.
The Wandervogel movement, which were a reaction to Weimar's republic, called for a return to simple country values and wanted more help for countryside.
The Bauhaus was in Dessau becuase it was forced out of Weimar by hostiletown officials.
The economy
US loans could be called in at short notice, causing the ruin of Germany.
Half of Germany's industrial production was controlled by big businesses and land owners.
Most Weimar governments were sympathetic towards the unions, which led to improved pay and conditions. However, unemployement began to rise.
Since the farmers overproduced during the war, they had mortages to pay but not enough demand for the food they produced.
Small shopkeepers were threatened by large department stores.
Foreign policy
Nationalists attacked Stresemann for joining the League of Nations and for signing the Locarno Pact because it meant Germany accepted the Treaty of Versailles.
Communist attacked Locarno as they saw it as part of a plot against the Communist government in the USSR.
Achievements
Politics
There were no attempted revolutions after 1923.
By 1928, moderate parties had 136 more seats in the Reichstag than the radical parties.
Some of the parties that co-operated in the "revolution" of 1918 began to co-operate again.
Culture
Artists tried representing the reality of everyday life, even if it was harsh.
Free expression of ideas was allowed
The famous Bauhaus style of design and architecture developed in Dessau.
The 1920s were a golden age for German cinema.
Going to clubs was a major pastime.
Cabaret artists performed songs criticising political leaders that would have been banned in the Kaiser's days.
The economy
Dawes Plan:reparations payments were spread over a longer period.
Loan from the USA poured into Germany industry and some went into public works (as well as providing facilities, the projets created jobs)
In 1928 Germany achieved the same levels of production as before the war.
The government was able to increase welfare benefits and wages for state employees.
Reparations were being paid and exports were on the increase.
Foreign policy
1925 the Locarno Treaties were signed. Stresemann guarantee not to try to change Germany's western borders with France and Belgium.
1926, Germany accepted into the League of Nations.
By the time Streseman died in 1929, the Young Plan was negotiated (further llightened the reparations and led to the final removal of British, French and Belgian troops from the Rhineland.