Germany after WW1
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| Absence of men | large burden on women and children at the home front
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| By 1917 | most German farms were run by women
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| Jobs | more became available as war industries expanded and wages rose but was cancelled out by rapidl increasing prices
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| British Naval Blockade | shortage of labour = supplies disrupted
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| Kiel Mutiny | Late 1918, German sailors mutinied and the kaiser’s government collapsed. Oct. 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm II named Prince Max von Baden as chancellor. He contacted Woodrow Wilson to impose the 14 points but Br. and Fr. intervened. It was a fail
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| Stab-in-the-back Theory | widely believed in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918, that the German Army did not lose WWI but betrayed by the civilians on the home front (the unpatriotic populace, theSocialists, Bolsheviks, the Weimar Republic, and especially the Jews)
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| November Criminals | the unpatriotic populace, theSocialists, Bolsheviks, the Weimar Republic, and especially the Jews.
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| Rations | introduced in 1915, repeatedly cut as resources dwindled
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| Potato | harvest fail in 1916, forced citizens to make do with turnips (The Turnip Winter), surviving on turnips and bread, flour for bread was mixed with sawdust
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| National Income | was about 1/3 from 1913
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| Meat consumption | down by 12%
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| War Pensions | Germany spending 1/3 of its budget on that
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| Industrial Production | down by 1/3 from 1915
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| Rich and poor | huge gaps between living conditions
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| German Workers | Bitter about restrictions in wages whilst their employers earn fortunes
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| Revolution | Oct-Nov 1918
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| Women working | in factories, seen as damaging to family values and society
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| New Democratic Leader | hated by ex-soldiers and civilians and come to believe that Field Marshall Hindenburg was betrayed by weak politicians
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| Field Marshall Hindenburg | Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg was Germany's most famous army commander in World War One. Hindenburg formed a formidable military partnership with Erich Luderndorff.
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| Period of crisis | 1918-23
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| Putsches | revolts
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| Economy | weakened by war effort, further damaged by demands for reparations and by terrible inflation
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| Price of bread in German Marks | 1918:0.54, 1921:3.90, 1922:163.50, 1923=Jan: 250.00, Jun: 3465.00, Sep: 1,512,000.00, Nov: 201,000,000,000.00
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| Economic Problems | 1921:gov prints more money to pay reparations, 1923: prints more money to pay workers
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| Period of Recovery | 1924-1929
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| Dawes Plan | 1924, 40 million pounds of loan from US, new currency to replace the one devalued by inflation, used by government to cover housing, and unemployment figures fell
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| Young Plan | 1929 Reduce amount of reparations by 75% gave her 59 years to pay, never worked because of Wall Street Crash
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| Locarno Treaty | 1925
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| Kellogg-Briand Pact | 1928, First only France and U.S.A, Agree not to go to war for 5 years, Settle disputes by peaceful means, Included: USA , Germany , USSR , Italy and Japan.
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| Rhineland | Britain and France withdrew their troops 5 years ahead of schedule
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| Monthly wage or a railway guard | 1914:157 marks, 1918: 342 marks
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| Price of a kilo of butter | 1914:2.6 marks, 1918: 30 marks
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| April 1917 | 300,000 Berlin workers went on strike, due to bread ration and wages
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