Which action taken by Stresemann helped end the crisis because it meant that the German government could stop losing money so fast.

Which action taken by Stresemann helped end the crisis because it meant that they could strictly limit the amount of money in circulation, restoring its value.

Which action taken by Stresemann helped end the crisis because it made the reparations payments more manageable and injected capital into the German economy?

Which action taken by Stresemann helped end the crisis because it helped persuade the French and Belgians to withraw from the Ruhr and agree to negotiate.

Which action taken by Stresemann helped end the crisis because it convinced the very right wing German army to support the government and protect it from coups like the Munich Putsch.

Which was not an aim of Stresemann's foreign policy?

What was this?

This was negotiated by Stresemann (First as Chancellor, then as Foreign Minister) in 1924. The USA loaned Germany 800 million marks and the reparations payments were spread out over a longer period of time in smaller installments. This helped the German economy to recover. In fact, Germany received more in US loans than they ever paid out in reparations. However, it also made the German economy very dependent on the US economy, which meant that it was badly hit by the Great Depression of 1929-32.

What was this?

A group of treaties negotiated between Germany and Britain, France and Italy in 1925. Stresemann was the German foreign minister at the time. These treaties confirmed Germany's boundaries with Belgium and France, guaranteeing that Germany would not try to take back Eupen-Malmedy or Alsace-Lorraine. They did NOT agree an Germany's eastern boundaries with Poland, Lithuania and Czechoslovakia, but Germany affirmed that these would be settled by negotiation, not war. These treaties normalized Germany's foreign relations after World War I.

What was this?

This was a new plan for Germany's payment of reparations. Stresemann negotiated it shortly before his death in 1929. It reduced the total amount of reparations Germany would have to pay by three quarters and spread the payments out over a longer period of time (until 1988). This was resented by many in Germany who believed Germany shouldn't pay reparations at all, but it was quite an achievement to negotiate it. In the end the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression led to reparations payments being suspended indefinitely, and they were never paid.

What was this?

A treaty between Germany and Russia promising economic and military cooperation. It was signed in 1922 and reaffirmed by Stresemann in the Treaty of Berlin of 1926.

Which were weaknesses of the Weimar economy 1924-28? (check all that apply)

Who was this?

Former journalist. Small, weak and crippled in the foot. Also very intelligent, well-educated and good at public speaking. He edited the Nazi newspaper and was in charge of its propaganda operation. After the Nazis came to power, he served as "Minister of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda". In May, 1945 he was with Hitler in the bunker under Berlin. He helped persuade Hitler to commit suicide. He then poisoned his own six children, shot his wife and then shot himself.

Who was this?

Middle class background. Served with Hitler in WWI. Helped Hitler write Mein Kampf when they were both in prison after the Beer Hall Putsch. Head of the party organization from 1933, but increasingly marginalized. Flew to Scotland in 1941 apparently to try to make peace with Britain. Sentenced to life imprisonment at the Nuremburg Trials, spent 21 years in Spandau prison. Strangled himself with a heater cable in 1987.

Who was this?

Former chicken farmer with a reputation for being hard working and precise. He was the leader of the SS from 1929. Helped persuade Hitler to eliminate the leadership of the SA in 1934. Chief of police in Nazi Germany, which included the infamous Gestapo. Oversaw the concentration camp system and the holocaust. Owned a lamp made of human skin and a copy of Mein Kampf printed on human skin in 1944. Captured in 1945, he committed suicide before he could be tried.

Who was this? Working class background. Received a medal for bravery and a promotion to captain in the army in World War I. Joined the Freikorps after the war. He was the one who first recruited Hitler to join the DAP to spy for the army. Hitler then convinced him to join himself. He helped found the SA and led it until 1934. In his autobiography, he wrote "Since I am an immature and wicked man, war and unrest appeal to me more than good bourgeois order." He was a homosexual and a heavy drinker. In 1934 Hitler decided to eliminate him in order to appease conservatives in Germany and to consolidate his own position in the party. He was accused of plotting a coup against Hitler and was executed without trial. Just before he died, he commented, "All revolutions devour their own children."

Who was this?

Middle class background. World War I fighter pilot and war hero. Intelligent, witty, charming, vain and greedy. Addicted to painkillers. Second head of the SA. Shot in the groin during Beer Hall Putsch. May have set the Reichstag Fire of 1933. Held various positions in Nazi Germany, including head of the air force (Luftwaffe). In charge of the economy from 1936. Famously said that people cold call him Meier and that he would eat his hat if the allies ever bombed the Ruhr. Convicted of war crimes in the Nuremburg Trial, he committed suicide with poison the night before he was to be hanged.