What did Stresemann do?

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What did Stresemann do?

• Golden Era of Weimar

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Treaty of Versailles
Spartacists

• 1924-29 Period of Stability after the problems of
  the early Weimar Republic

Political Violence
Kapp Putsch
Ruhr Invasion
Hyperinflation
Munich Putsch
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• Introduction of the new Rentenmark
• What did this do?
• Halted the extreme hyperinflation which was
  crippling the economy
• Stresemann refused to print more and more money
• Resorted confidence in the economy

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• Dawes Plan 1924
• Agreement between American Banks and the German
  Government.
• Reparations set at 132,000 Million Marks
• What did this do?
• Gave Germany money to help with Reparation
  payments
• Reparation payments were spread out

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Foreign Achievements

• Evacuation of the Ruhr 1925
• Joined the League of Nations 1925
• Locarno Pact 1925
• Accepted Germanys Western borders.
• Signed with Britain, France, Belgium and Italy
• Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928
• Signed by over 60 countries outlaws war.

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Young Plan 1929

• The total sum of reparation to be paid was
  reduced to 37,000 million marks.
• Annual payments, lower than under the Dawes Plan,
  were to be made over 58 years.
• What also happened in 1929?

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Life in Germany during this Period

• 1920s saw a massive cultural revival
• Cabaret Shows

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German Beauty Contest 1925
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• Cafes and Bars

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• Women were Americanised, wearing makeup, short
  hair, smoking and breaking out of tradition

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Golden Era

• This progress was funded by overseas loans,
  increasing the nation's debts, while overall
  trade decreased and unemployment rose.
  Stresemann's reforms did not relieve the
  underlying weaknesses of Weimar but gave the
  appearance of a stable democracy.
• In 1929, Stresemann's death marked the end of the
  "Golden Era" of the Weimar Republic. He died at
  the age of 51, four years after receiving the
  1926 Nobel Peace Prize.