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Topic 3- Economic and Social Problems, 1919-1924 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - most likely why govt were happy for prices to rise (inflation reduces debt)
  - - - Wirth began policy of fulfilment
        
        however in march 1922, gov asked for a suspension of payment
- - - - all mines, factories, steelworks occupied by troops, with a further 40,000 joining the Ruhr
      - Cuno a financial expert (non partymember) had become chancellor and ordered passive resistance- SPD refused to join coalition
        
        workers were promised they would still be paid, while nationalist paramilitary fought a guerrilla war against France (who responded by deporting 150,000 germans from the area)
  - - - taxes from striking workers were lost, businesses closed in the area
      - Germany had to import coal
    - - money lost all value
- - - - but it does not put food on the table, so the constitution guaranteed work or welfare support- but was made for by printing more money
        
        1919= maximum working day of 8 hours
        
        1919= benefits for non working women and disabled
        
        1919= aid for disabled veterans and pensions for war widows increased
        
        1922= secondary schooling made compulsory and introduction of social workers to protect vulnerable children