Stresemann

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  • The Weimar Republic under Streseman
    • Achievements
      • The Economy
      • Politics
        • No more attempted revolutions after 1923
        • More stable
        • 1928 136 more seats for the moderate parties in the Reichstag than radical parties
        • Hitlers party only gained 3% in 1928 election
        • Parties began to cooperate again
          • The SPD, DDP & DVP worked well together 1924-1929
        • Less left wing supporting the Republic
          • More right wing opposing the Republic
          • More left wing opposed to the Republic
      • Culture
        • Revival
          • Free expression of ideas under Weimar Germany
            • Paintings shows criticism for politicians and industry
              • Criticism of the Weimar Republic
                • Showing them to be mindless and callous
          • Berlins nightlife became liberated
        • Bauhaus style of design developed
        • Golden age of cinema in 1920's
      • Foreign Policy
        • Stesemanns greatest triumph
          • Foreign Policy 1925
            • Signed the Locarno Treaties
              • Change Germanys borders with France and Belgium
              • 1926 accepted in to the League of Nations
                • Stresemann started to work to revers some of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles
                  • Namely the ones linked to reparations
          • Negotiated the Young Plan
            • He died after this in 1929
              • Lead to the removal of foreign troops from the Rhineland
            • Reduced further the reparations burden
    • Problems
      • Economy
        • Winners were  big businesses & landowners
          • Land value rose by 700%
          • Improved pay but unemploy rose
        • Losers were peasant farmers
          • overproducing post war
          • Department stores
      • Politics
        • Stability in the Weimar Republic
          • Nazi's & Communists building up parties
        • 4 chancellors
          • Hindenburg President in 1926
            • Opposed democracy
        • 30% of the vote to parties opposing the republic
        • Right wing organisations opposed Weimar
          • Quiet but not destroyed
            • Nazi's & Right Wing Nationalist Party (DNVP) began to collaborate
              • Appear respectable
      • Culture
        • Culture in big cities seen as a moral decline
          • Made worse by American immigrants & Jewish artists
        • Wandegrovel wanted more support for simple country values
      • Foreign Policy
        • Nationalist attacked Stresemann for joining the LON
          • For also signing the Locarno Pact
            • Communists attacked Locarno
              • saw it as a plot against the communists
          • Felt it showed Germany accepted the Treaty of Versailles

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