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Germany: Democracy and Dictatorship c.1918-1945

Stresemann, the Dawes and Young Plans and Locarno

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Aim of Stresemann's policy of fulfilment and deliberately left out of Locarno.

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Key term

What did the Dawes Plan of 1924 change?

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Assess the description of these years as the golden years of Weimar.

Key term

What was the aim of Stresemann's policy of fulfilment?

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  1. 1

    What offices did Gustav Stresemann hold after 1923?

    Model answer

    He was Chancellor for a few months in 1923 and then Foreign Minister continuously until his death in 1929, serving in governments of several different compositions.

  2. 2

    What was the aim of Stresemann's policy of fulfilment?

    Model answer

    To show by attempting to meet the treaty's terms that they were impossible, and so obtain revision by negotiation rather than by defiance.

  3. 3

    What did the Dawes Plan of 1924 change?

    Model answer

    It rescheduled reparations on a sliding scale linked to Germany's capacity to pay, provided a large American loan to restart the economy, and reorganised the Reichsbank under partial foreign supervision.

  4. 4

    What did the Dawes Plan not do?

    Model answer

    It did not reduce the total sum owed or remove the war guilt clause, which is why nationalists attacked it as enslaving Germany for two generations.

  5. 5

    What followed the Dawes Plan in the Ruhr?

    Model answer

    French and Belgian troops withdrew during 1925, ending the occupation.

  6. 6

    What did the Young Plan of 1929 provide?

    Model answer

    It cut the total reparations bill substantially, extended the payments over nearly sixty years, and removed foreign supervision of German finances.

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