1. REVISION GERMANY

3. Germany after WW1 People starving 1.8 million dead Navy mutinies
Army still intact
Allies offer unconditional surrender – Kaiser agrees to abdicate
Spartecists and the Munich soviet
New social democratic government
Freikorps used to crush Spartacists

10. It carries on going wrong
Fritz Ebert
Weimar constitution
1919 Treaty of Versailles – Diktat and the stab in the back.
1920 Kapp Putsch – faced down by Ebert with the support of German workers. Freikorps disbanded
1920 Murder of Walter Ratheneau
Can’t/won’t pay reparations
1923 French invade Ruhr – Ebert advises peaceful non cooperation.
Hyperinflation – Middle classes suffer
1924 Munich Beer Hall Putsch - Faced down by Ebert and Stresseman

11. It gets better
Gustav Stresemann as chancellor and later foreign Minister
1925 French withdraw from the Ruhr
1924 New currency – the Rentenmark backed by land
1924 Dawes Plan – Payments suspended and then rescheduled. American loans flood in. Germany booms – industry doubles.
1928 Young Plan – loans again rescheduled over a longer time – till 1988
1925 Locarno treaty – Germany is respectable again.
1925 Stresseman get’s Nobel Peace Prize and 1926 Germany joins the League of Nations.
1927 Hindenburg becomes President – symbol of national unity.
1928 Kellogg Briand Pact

13. BUT Stresemann dies Wall Street Crash Great Depression
US Loans recalled
Businesses go under
Millions unemployed

14. What is the response
Chancellor Heinrich Brunning unable to get agreement – too many quarrelling parties.
Drift to Nazis – Work Freedom Bread – 12 seats in in 1930
Communists – five year Plan in the USSR – 54 seats in seats in 1930
Moderate parties lose out