1.4 Cultural Changes - Weimar Germany

Wages increased and conditions improved.

• True

• False

Unemployment rose overall, and remained high among the middle class (lawyers, teachers etc.)

• True

• False

Unemployment fell by 0.7 million

• True

• False

By 1928, homelessness had dropped by over 80%

• True

• False

By 1927, uemployment insurance was introduced

• True

• False

In 1919, women over 20 were given the vote.

• True

• False

By 1926, 320 female deputies were in the Reichstag

• True

• False

Many women did ‘men’s work’ during WW1, and were paid the same as men. They kept their jobs after the war.

• True

• False

Women had more social freedom than before.

They went out on their own, drank and smoked in public, were fashion conscious, had their hair cut short and wore make-up.

• True

• False

Strict pre-war censorship was removed. There were new developments in painting, cinema, architecture, literature and theatre.

• True

• False