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Germany In Transition - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The Dawes Plan made it easier to pay off the reparations and gave Germany 800 million marks
      - The Young Plan reduced Germany's reparations by 67%
      - The Rentenmark helped to end hyperinflation and restore Germany's currency, and also got the French out of the Ruhr
      - Stresemann's reforms brought in a golden period of culture and freedom
      - Germany joined the League of Nations
    - - The Young plan reduced but didn't get rid of the reparations
      - Many Germans saw Locarno, the League and Kellogg-Briand as a sign of weakness for Germany
      - The Rentenmark was only temporary and many middle class people didn't get their savings back
  - - - Guaranteed Germany's western borders with France, Italy and Belgium.
        Unpopular with many Germans- nicknamed 'Second Versailles'.
    - - Germany was allowed to join the League of Nations as relations were improving further.
        The League of Nations was an international organisation that Germany had been banned from in 1919.
    - - Agreed that Germany would only pay back what it could afford each year.
        Loans from USA, Britain and other countries of 800 million marks.
        Germany would resume reparations and the French would leave the Ruhr.
    - - Germany signed it, showing that they meant peace
        The Kellogg-Briand Pact was an international agreement which committed countries to not use war to settle disputes.
    - - This plan agreed that the total reparations bill would be reduced from £6.6 billion to £2.2billion- a drop of 67%.
        Germany would be given 59 years to pay off the reparations.
        The Young Plan was unpopular with extremists like the Communists and the Nazis but was approved by 85% of Germans in a referendum.
        Abandoned after the Wall Street Crash a few months later.
  - - - 1923
      - new temporary currency to help solve the problem of hyperinflation
      - replaced the old currency, the Mark, which had become useless
    - - 2 million new homes were built
      - Homelessness reduced by 60%
      - Wages began to recover and improve
      - Women experienced more freedom in work, fashion and even smoking/drinking in public
      - Unemployed benefits were improved
    - - Buildings were designed in a new brutal style mixing glass and concrete- this was the Bauhaus style
      - Film industry developed with films like Metropolis, The Blue Angel and Holy Mountain
      - Art and music became more realisic
      - Books began to challenge traditional German beliefs and values