1.  starter activity
What do you think is happening in this image?

2. What were the causes of Hyperinflation?
Add the term hyperinflation to your Dictogloss
What were the causes of Hyperinflation?
Aims
To explain the causes of Hyperinflation in Germany in 1923

3. Your Task
Task 1
Task 2
Around the room are a collection of sources about Hyperinflation
Visit each source and note down key information about Hyperinflation in Germany in 1923 (remember to record where you collected each piece of evidence)
Write a summary paragraph about hyperinflation, refer to at least three of the sources in your response.

4. Reading Challenge The Occupation of the Ruhr – pg 12
In 1923 a combined French and Belgian force occupied the Ruhr
Why did they invade?
What were reparations?
What was the German governments response?
Why could they not use force?
What were the main results of the invasion?

5. Pries spiral out of control - HYPERINFLATION
The Treaty of Versailles is passed and Germany is told to pay £6.6bn in reparations
The government tells the German worker to go on strike – PASSIVE RESISTANCE
Pries spiral out of control - HYPERINFLATION
Germany loses the war
Because the workers are on strike there is no money coming in – the workers still need to be paid
The German government stops paying the reparations
To pay the money the German government print more money
Prices go up as people now have more money to spend so the government prints more money
France gets angry and invades the Ruhr (a huge industrial region of Germany)

6. The German government stops paying the reparations
Germany loses the war
The Treaty of Versailles is passed and Germany is told to pay £6.6bn in reparations
The German government stops paying the reparations
Prices go up as people now have more money to spend so the government prints more money
Pries spiral out of control - HYPERINFLATION
France gets angry and invades the Ruhr (a huge industrial region of Germany)
To pay the money the German government print more money
Because the workers are on strike there is no money coming in – the workers still need to be paid
The government tells the German worker to go on strike – PASSIVE RESISTANCE

7. Unistructural
State one fact, cause, effect or detail, about Hyperinflation in Germany in 1923
Multistructural
State two or more, causes, effect sor details, about Hyperinflation in Germany in 1923
Relational
Make links between causes or consequences of Hyperinflation in Germany in 1923
Extended Abstract
Suggest ways in which Hyperinflation could have been avoided or compare and contrast with any other period of history in which hyperinflation occurred