As the chancellor in 1923 he led Germany out of the hyperinflation crisis and as the foreign minister, he ended Germany's isolation amongst the international community and helped the country to become a magnet for foreign investment. Stresemann was admired by some, reviled by others. In September 1923 when the Germans were unable to pay reperations to France, French and Belgian troops took resources from the Rurh area as payment, which influenced the German workers to refuse to work in Ruhr. The workers strike worsened the fall in production. This encouraged Stresemann to call off the passive resistance and he agreed to repay the reperations and persuaded workers to return to work.
This shows how the West we willing to let the soviets do something that was clearly wrong. The reason why they allowed them to do this was because they knew if they had intervened it would have escalated the tension between the two countries and would have possibly started war with the soviets. This is the idea of appeasement and some people said that it was showing a ‘soft’ approach to facing communism. The US didn’t want the soviets to think that they had the advantage over America so they made sure they kept a strong grip on the West of Berlin. Despite their willingness to coexist they were not willing to look weak or give in easily.
The League of Nations was succesful during the 1920´s, but not always. The League had some aims which were: to discourage aggression from any nation, to encourage countries to co-operate especialy in business and trade, to encourage nations to disarm, to improve the living and working conditions of people in all parts of the world, to reinforce the terms of the treaties were carried out. Although there were also different kind of problems that the League had to deal with, the most important one is that the USA didn´t join the League of Nations. In Upper Silesia, 1921. The Germans and the Poles argued because each country wanted to take control of this region and they were fighting for it.
As seen in Document J this jobs did help to greatly lower the percentage of unemployed between 1935 and 1938. Although the work of the WPA did not completely solve the enormous problem it was certainly a move in the right direction, bringing the USA closer to the complete extermination of the unemployment problem, which was finally achieved after the second world war. This New Deal, fueled by organizations such as the WPA, completely revolutionized the role of the federal government. Coxey had advocated for actions similar to the new deal decades before but his ideas were shut down because the government had such close ties with big. However now, in such drastic times, the federal government realized that it needed to help the common people directly through providing more Jobs.
The act also emplaced the Tariff of 1922. Intended to simply protect the American market, the tariff ended up completely barring the country from European goods. Harding was an advocate of big business, and passed different acts in support of big business. Mellon enacted several Revenue Acts, which lowered taxes on businesses and put them under less government regulation. This support for big business caused an expansion in the overall consumerism of the country.
Theodore Roosevelt stepped up and warned businesses to “act properly.” Those business elites that cooperated with the government elites were considered good trusts. Vice versa, those who didn’t were considered bad and thus busted. Business elites still won the war due to the fact that the government could only go so far until it starts to hurt the economy. Whatever happens to the big guys would have direct impacts on the little
If the USA joined the League, it would mean agreeing with the colonies and empires idea and it would also mean that the League would be in control of Britain and France. The Legislative doesn’t want us being under control of France and Britain because we are more powerful than both those countries and we have pride in our country. Being the under the League’s control could cost us anything. The League could force us to give money or soldiers to help sort out other countries’ disputes. USA is powerful because of our isolationism from other foreign countries and if we joined the League, it would mean that we would be under control of Britain and France and we would be like dummies; doing whatever the puppet master told us to do.
How far was the economic slump in Germany responsible for the remarkable rise in support for the Nazi party in the years 1928-32? Germany’s economic slump was a major factor in the Nazi’s good fortunes; however it was by no means the only factor which contributed to their rise in support. Linked with the poor economic climate, the political situation was in a dire condition, with no party apparently able to find a solution to Germany’ problems. A societal shift away from support for democracy also enhanced the NSDAP’s support as they seemed to offer a new hope to the public. The elite undermined Weimar as a result of their traditional values and hatred of democracy.
Mostly what they did was lower taxes on income and company profits; this gave the wealthy more money to invest in American buildings and industry, thus Americans had more money to spend on the commodities that were being produced and it further allowed for a growth of American business’ and monopolies. Additionally, they started putting taxes on imported goods which promoted the purchase of national made items, hence helping American producers. This measure also had a negative side as it had a high risk of deteriorating international trading between the United States and other European and South American countries. Moreover, they did not interfere with people's businesses due to their ‘Lassez Faire’ policy, neither had they put any restrictions on financial institutions and banks which gave them more freedom and money to spend and therefore have a greater profit. However this pro-business agenda that the Republicans had proposed, wasn’t beneficiary to all American people.
Generally, the League acted quickly and effectively when they were faced new problems, with the odd deviation from the common way of things. For example, the situation of Vilna in 1920: Vilna was made capital of the new state Lithuania but its population was largely Polish and in 1920 Polish forces took control of it. The League protested to Poland but Poland would not retreat. The French did not want to wage a war against Poland; they saw it as a potential ally to Germany in the future. Britain was not prepared to act alone, so the League eventually did nothing.