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Weimar Germany - Coggle Diagram
Weimar Germany
Roaring 20s 1923-1929
- Restarts war reparation payments, orders an end to resistance in occupied Ruhr Valley and introduces a series of economic reforms including a new currency: Rentenmark
- Stressman's policies are successful and sees Germany reintroduced into European affairs and admitted to the League of Nations
- Gustav Stressman becomes Weimar's new chancellor, he sees Germany's way to become strong again is to rehabilitate its image to its former enemies
- Dawes Plan 1924 and Young Plan 1929, restructures war reparation burden and cheap loans from US banks
- Germany now becomes the leading European centre of culture and artisitic expression
- Plans see Germany's economy boom and support for political extremism declines
Slow Decline 1929-1933
- October 30 1929, Stressman dies and October 1929 Wall Street Crash
- This leads to American banks demanding repayment from Germany which they are unable to repay and economic collapse occurs in Germany
- By 1932, 6 millions German's are unemployed which pushes them towards political extremism
- Between 1929-1932, a series of weak coalition government take power but fail within months creating more distrust in democratic Weimar Germany
- In 1933 Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party takes power and dismantle the apparatus of democracy in Germany
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Formation of Weimar
- Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates November 9 1918, Friedrich Elbert (SDP) is tasked to form a new government
- New German gov. signs Treaty of Versaille, most German People see the new gov. forever associated to Germany's defeat in WW1
- Political extremists dislike new gov.