To what extent did the Weimar Republic overcome its problems by the end of 1923?

remained partly unsolved. Germany surrendered to the Allies on 11 November 1918. In June 1919 Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles, without a choice. The treaty had many terms including war guilt, reparations, military restrictions and territorial losses. The Treaty ha been very hard on Germany and the Weimar Government had been forced to accept it. Many Germans hated and resented the loss of territory, the reparations and the war guilt clause. It wasn’t actually their fault but the Weimar government tended to get the blame. By the end of 1923 the treaty was still partly a problem. Germany still had to pay reparations and were still blamed for starting the war and had a bad reputation in Germany for signing it. Opposition from the left wing was another partly unsolved problem among the Weimar Republic. The attempted takeover of Bavaria had been crushed. Two communist leaders had also been killed earlier in the year. However the communists were still active. Opposition from the right of the Kapp Putsch and Munich Putsch remained a partly unsolved problem for the Weimar Republic. Hitler failed in his attempts to capture Munich and march to Berlin. However, the Nazi party did not disappear, and Hitler became chancellor of Germany in January 1933. The Kapp Putsch was still a real threat, but after they had taken over Berlin the workers went on general strike and the attempted takeover failed. This was a sign of support. Afterwards the Weimar government returned to power. However, the right wing opposition were still around in Germany, therefore this remained partly unsolved. The general strike was so successful that the Kapp Putsch collapsed within days as public services ground to a halt. However, those who had participated in the putsch were never punished for their actions. Without the support of the army, the government could o little against them. Political murders were still a partly unsolved. They occurred in 1921 and 1922, Murderers only received light punishments and riots and lawlessness were still common, this made the government seem weak.         However, the Weimar Republic were able to solve some of their problems by 1923. As Germany was not keeping up with its reparations payments the French and Belgian troops marched in to the Ruhr and occupied it. The Germans responded with a policy of passive resistance; however this was resulting in Germany becoming even poorer. In August 1923 Stresemann became chancellor. He called off the policy of passive resistance as he saw it was bankrupting Germany – this took a lot of courage to abandon it as many felt he was giving in to France. French troops also eventually left the Ruhr. This was a problem the Weimar Republic were able to overcome. The German government did not have enough money to pay for the costs of the passive resistance in the Ruhr, so it printed more and more worthless money – this is when Hyperinflation began. However, in October 1923 the government stopped printing the old, worthless money and introduced a new temporary currency, the Rentenmark. By strictly limiting the amount of this currency in circulation the value of German money was stabilise, and in the next year a new permanent currency, the Reichsmark, was brought in.         The Weimar Republic were able to solve or partly solve many of its problems by the end of 1923, however a significant number still remained unsolved. Opposition of the extreme right wing remained a big problem. Freikorps were left to cause trouble later on, and also the Nazi’s were not all fully crushed after the Munich Putsch. They simply regrouped to fight again. Also the Treaty of Versailles was still in place and the Weimar were still constantly blamed. Germany’s economy’s weakness was not totally solved either, and the economy was just about sustained by US loans through the 1920s.