Describe the effects of hyperinflation on Germany in 1923. (9) The Weimar government was short of money after the First World War and so began to print more and more banknotes. The sudden flood of paper money into the economy, on top of the general strike - which meant that no goods were manufactured, so there was more money, chasing fewer goods - combined with a weak economy ruined by the war, all resulted in hyperinflation. Prices ran out of control, for example, a loaf of bread, which cost 250 marks in January 1923 had risen to 200,000 million marks in November 1923. German's currency became worthless.
Agrarian discontent took a sharp increase in the late nineteenth century due to various aids. Railroad managements cheated on inventory shippers, through pricing. With deflation, farmers became buried with debt trouble. Growing production of farm products in the cities, created emptiness in the farmers’ pockets. During the period between 1880 and 1900, agrarian discontent increased as a result of the rise of cities, deflation of the American money, and problems with railroads and freight shipping.
Your responses should help you to write the essay. HISTORICAL CONTEXT: Before leaving office, George Washington sounded a warning about political parties and their potential to divide and destroy America. TASK A: Using information from the documents and your knowledge of social studies, answer the questions that follow each document. Your answers to the questions will help you write the essay. TASK B: Write an essay that addresses the following question: To what extent was George Washington correct in his warning about political parties?
Document 1 [Ye Chunji] gives a quote about how Chunji has noticed the social gap and how the upper class is becoming increasingly unsatisfied and greedy; whereas document 3 [Wang Xijue]tells more of the economic social gap between the two main classes and explains how the economy is aiding the social gap through the harvest. In document 7 [He Qiaoyuan] another Ming court official talks about how China makes goods that are worth maybe 100 silver coins but sells them for triple that amount. All three of these documents also contribute to the fact that the Ming dynasty played a major role in the global trade of silver. During this time the economic impact of silver in Spain can be seen in Documents 2 and 6. Document 2 [Tomas de Mercado] shows that the ballast stones used in the ships on the outgoing trip were replaced by silver during their return trips; while document 6 [Antonio Vazquez de Espinos] claims that from 1545 to 1624 a total of approximately 326,000,000 silver coins were taken out of the mines in Potosi.
Donna Kalap Mr. Foley AP Euro 19 November 2012 DOCUMENT BASED QUESTIONS “The Poor During 1450s Through 1700” 15th century Europe and onward has been plagued by the political turmoil which took full effect on these considered the scum’s of earth… “the poor”. Due to political, economical, social, and religious changes, the peasants were criticized, pushed around, look down upon, and were pitied by many including nobles, religious officials, and the hierarchies. Over the centuries, social statuses, political actions as well as religious actions that have had negative and positive responses toward the less fortunate including their own view. Social differences played a keen role since those who held high positions, negatively criticized those below them. Meetings involving town councils analyzed the poor as those “unwilling to work” as well as being “harmful to the public good” and not to mention their actions to “expel the poor from the city” (Doc.5).
Outline and assess Marxist theories of crime. Marxist theories of crime are based on conflict. They claim that society is divided by capitalism and there is a conflict between the upper-classes and the working-classes. They suggest that social inequality is a cause of crime saying that the law is made by the upper class (bourgeoisie) to benefit the ruling class and is harsh towards the working class. Marxist writers such as Chambliss suggest that the majority of the working-classes are exploited by the owners of big businesses and the government.
French Revolution In 1789 the common people rose up against the unfair economic situation put upon them by the French Aristocracy. The monarchy spent such great amounts of money it put the country plunging into a large amount of debt. King Louis XVI and his predecessors left the country in poor conditions such as droughts, disease with cattle and massive price increases in goods. The monarchy sought to recover the debt by taxing the common people till they eventually reached the point of starvation and poverty while the King continued to spend money at his own dispense. At the time the United States was hoping to use their alliance with France to gain an advantage over the British, but did not want to lose their much needed trade with the British.
They’ve been cheated, exploited, and they despise the ones who have caused them their hardships. Giant industries really had an enormous amount of control at the turn of the century in the United States; the greed of the powerful ones has turned the American Dream into a nightmare for an ordinary worker. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair seemed to really want to expose the evils of capitalism, and the suffering of the wage earners. After reading this book I also learned how the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906 came about. It’s amazing how long it took them to finally sign off on those acts because of how horrendous the working conditions were.
Additionally some of the revolutionary armies conducted patrols in the provinces using ambulatory guillotines, ready to administer what was termed as revolutionary justice to anyone who manipulated market prices or hoarded grain, right there on the spot. Large cities were hit by grain shortages and felt vulnerable to the popular unrest which accompanied them. Parisians had witnessed the dangerous under-supply in their city in 1793’s summer. Second, terror meant the civil liberties suspension and repression of the perceived revolution enemies. The most severe impacts of Terror were felt in civil war areas and counterrevolution as well as several frontier departments.
He defined relative deprivation as “perceived discrepancy between value expectations and value capabilities”, namely people cannot achieve what they expected in their life. When people are frustrated, they might behave aggressively, and Gurr considered this as providing the “primary source of the human capacity for violence”. He had also stated that the stronger the deprivation is, the more likely that a collective violence might occur. Looking back to the examples of various revolutions, it can be observed that the eve of rebellion usually accompany with economic depression. For instance, in the year before the 1789 French Revolution, an extremely poor harvest stroke France and it affected peasants catastrophically.