Problems solved by 1928

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Benji Gourgey        Weimar Republic solved problems        17/10/2008 After the war, Germany was in a very bad situation, with the treaty of Versailles imposing crippiling reperations, which led to France invading the Ruhr land as the Reperations had not been paid in 1922, causing the country to go on strike which meant there was no more money, so the government tried to produce more money, which lead to hyperinflation, making all savings worthless.  Once the G the political system a mess after the Kaiser had been abdicated and Germany were very unpopular amongst the world.  The Weimar republic had solved the problem very well, but there were still flaws to their solutions. In terms of economy, since Stresemann had become chancellor, the economy had improved drastically. He called off the passive resistance in the Ruhr as well as this, he got all the worthless marks and burned them, replacing them with a new currency called the Rentenmark. He negotiated to receive American
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loans under the Dawes plan, which meant that America would loan Germany 800 billion, on top of all this he renegotiated reparation payments. There was both some threat from the left and the right, but they were reasonably weak, in terms of popularity by 1924, for the Weimar campaign had been going very well. The communists were no longer a big threat, for every time they tried to revolt, Ebert had easily stopped them by using the Freikorps, and this generally scared off any future revolutions, so much so that when they did have revolutions, only fifteen percent of communists ...

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