Therefore, people who had lost savings due to hyperinflation were not compensated. They were angry and blamed the government for their losses. Source F is an extract from an article written by a historian that suggests that people’s lives were improving because the German economy was doing really well and they had made a major recovery. Another reason the economy was saved was because Stresemann called off action against the French occupation of the Ruhr. Stresemann called of the policy of passive resistance in order to try to persuade the French to leave the Ruhr.
In order to minimize the damage of Germany’s reputation after the invasion, Germany wrote an appeal to the neutral United States explaining the reason of its entrance to the war. The “German Appeal to Americans” was issued in August 1914 by a Committee of Leading German Statesmen, Scholars, Bankers and Merchants, Including Prince von Bulow, Marshal von der Goltz, Matthias Erzerberger, Herr Ballin, Count von Reventlow, and the Head of the Imperial Bank. Due to the obvious importance of this document, the authors of this appeal consisted of many highly respected scholars and leaders in Germany. Prince Von Bulow was one of the statesmen who took part in writing of the appeal. He was a German Chancellor and Prussian prime minister from October 17, 1900, to July 14, 1909.
Regardless of this, although Germany seemed politically calm, there were still massive problems arising which could later cause significant problems in the early 1930s. Firstly, the Dawes Plan was an important incline that Germany was about to approach a much needed period of economic stability. After burning all of the old Deutschemark currency and replacing it with a completely new currency known as the Rentenmark, which was the main cause of solving the inflation crisis, and also with the much appreciated investment from America, German unemployment levels briefly fell in 1925.The new Rentenmark currency allowed Germany to continue paying back the hefty reparations which were under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. The American investment not only helped Germany to pay reparations to the Allies, which they would not have been able to do, it also developed the infrastructure, for example creating
Unfortunately, Harding passed away while in office, and Vice President Calvin Coolidge took over. Coolidge continued many of Harding’s ideas by supporting the big businesses and relaxing government involvement. He helped to restore the United States faith in the government after Harding’s scandal in office. Coolidge helped produce the Dawes Plan that would help Germany pay back their war debt. With Coolidge’s success in office he
This had a big impact on the power of Germany as it was restored, and made her much stronger and more confident. Other Countries also saw Germany as equals, and paid her much more respect. Germany also prospered economically. Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor turned Foreign Secretary, was a major reason why Germany managed to escape the worst of hyperinflation. The most effective change that he made was that he established the Rentenmark in November 1923.
Source W seems to take the opposite approach deeming how Germany’s aggressive actions since the turn of the century resulted in war. Source X seems to take a neutral decision and admits how it is a matter of great controversy but points towards the fact that Germany had always wanted colonial expansion, and also that there is an array of information that supports this. Therefore, I believe that the outbreak of war in Europe was due to an aggressive foreign policy which had been waged from 1900. Source W suggests that aggressive Weltpolitik was a major contributing factor leading up to the start of the First World War. After seeing the successes of the British Empire, Kaiser Wilhelm decided that he too wanted an empire and wished for one that could match and outstrip Britain.
“The political establishment in Germany succeeded in maintaining the political status quo through a policy of moderate reform” How far do you agree with this judgement? When regarding the achievements to the political establishment maintaining the political status quo, it is considerable debatable whether this was through a policy of moderate form or instead only conserving their status by force. Many would agree their status was genuinely through moderate reform, this is because evidence for the input to social legislation, including policies such as Bismarck's Tarrif Law, Sickness Insurance law, the Anti-Socialists Laws and finally advancements with in the economy. Evidently, each of these points ensured citizens reassurance and trust within the political establishment as they benefited the public in different ways. However, many would agree that the politcal establishment only obtained there status quo through the use of force.
It could be argued that this was due to America’s neutrality to the war until April 1917 causing the USA not to have any war damage and this changed America’s economy as they replaced Britain and London as the USA and New York became the Financial Centre of the world. This shows that the economy was strengthened due to impact of the 1st World War. It can be argued that the impact of the 1st World War had a negative impact on the economy, especially industrial unrest. This is a convincing argument because the demobilisation and reduction of the war time production had led to an increase amount of unemployment causing workers to be out of jobs. It could be argued that the national debt increased to 658% during the war and due to this the taxes raised higher and remained higher even after the war in 1918.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain truly believed that they had made peace with Germany so once more France and Britain appeased Germany (Dr. Seuss). Later, he held a press conference saying “We have made peace in our time.” In addition to this false hope of peace, the British and the French refused to risk war with Germany by giving aid to Poland after Germany attacked its port of Danzig. Horrible memories of hundreds of thousands of men from multiple nations who lost their lives in World War 1 in addition to severe global economic problems were both large deterrents of war in the eyes of France and Britain. However, these nations were not the only culprits in this act of idleness towards obvious growing issues of totalitarian and
And how did such an advanced society allow itself to be seduced and then destroyed by its own capacity for senseless barbarity? The Germans in the thirties were seduced by the glittering success of Hitler in creating jobs, generating a vibrant economy and restoring Germany's military might. William Shirer, who was on the scene in Germany during these critical years, candidly sums up the mood of the country at this juncture: "Not many Germans lost sleep over the arrests of a few thousand pastors and priests or over the quarreling of the various Protestant sects .." It was this apathy and moral indifference in Germany that empowered Hitler and fueled his military juggernaut that was poised to roll inexorably over Europe. Why did Hitler hate the Jews? Holocaust happened because Hitler and the Nazis were racist.