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 starter activity.  Your task. With your partner do a quick SWOT analysis of the Weimar Republic which had replaced life under the Kaiser. Remember SWOT stands for: S trengths W eaknesses O pportunities T hreats. Why was 1923 a crisis year?.  Aims.

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  1. starter activity  Your task • With your partner do a quick SWOT analysis of the Weimar Republic which had replaced life under the Kaiser. Remember SWOT stands for: • Strengths • Weaknesses • Opportunities • Threats

  2. Why was 1923 a crisis year?  Aims To identify and analyse the problems facing the Weimar Republic in 1923

  3.  Your task • Your teacher will give you a chart. Complete the chart with evidence of the problems facing the government and the way they were resolved.

  4. Crisis 1 : The occupation of the Ruhr • Germany did not keep up with reparations • January 1923, French and Belgian troops marched into the Ruhr - legal under the Treaty of Versailles. • The Germans responded with passive resistance, but this made Germany even poorer.

  5. Crisis 1 : The occupation of the Ruhr • Stresemann called off passive resistance • Criticism for giving in to France • Economy began to recover & France withdrew

  6. Crisis 2: Hyperinflation • German govt. printed extra banknotes to cover costs of reparartions • Value of money goes down and prices rise to compensate • Pensions and savings lost • Wages lost all value • People blamed new Weimar government, which had agreed to reparations under the Versailles Treaty

  7. Crisis 2: Hyperinflation • October 1923, govt. destroys old currency • Introduces new temporary currency, Rentenmark, & limits amount in circulation • Introduces new permanent currency, Reichsmark • 1924, US loaned money to Germany, Dawes Plan Why was the US prepared to loan such huge sums of money to a recent enemy?

  8. Crisis 3: The Munich (Beer Hall) Putsch • Right-wing extremists plot a putsch against the Reich government • November 1923, Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist (Nazi) Party launch an attempted revolution in Munich, the capital city of Bavaria. • Putsch crushed by army Why do you think right-wing extremists were unhappy with Stresemann’s government?

  9. Crisis 3: The Munich (Beer Hall) Putsch • To keep the support of the army Stresemann dissolves the left-wing govts. of Saxony & Thuringia • Hilter sentenced to 5 years (only served 9 months) • Ludendorff declared innocent

  10.  Discussion How well did Stresemann deal with the crises he faced?

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