(a) Study Source 1. How useful is it as evidence for an historian studying the outbreak of the Kapp Putsch of 1920? [13] This is a primary source so it can be a useful piece of evidence for a historian studying the outbreak of the Kapp putsch. This is a primary source because it is an extract from the proclamation‚ (The Cabinet issued this proclamation calling on Germany’s workers to defeat the putsch by means of a general strike.) This was written for public consumption and the author’s reputation
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Following the victory of the Suffrage movement with the passage and ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920 many in the women’s movement were left wondering‚ what’s next? Suffrage was the attainment of a goal of generations of women‚ and with its passage‚ to paraphrase Plutarch‚ what worlds were left to be conquered? Writing in the Historian‚ Peter Geidel states that it was at this point that the women’s movement splintered into schools: The Social Feminists and the Feminists”. According to Geidel
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However the "London ultimatum" in May 1921 demanded reparations in gold or foreign currency to be paid in annual installments of 2‚000‚000‚000 (2 billion) goldmarks plus 26 percent of the value of Germany’s exports. A 50 million mark banknote from 1923. The first payment was made when due in June 1921. That was the beginning of an increasingly rapiddevaluation of the Mark which fell to less than one third of a cent by November 1921 (approx. 330 Marks per US Dollar). The total reparations demanded
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factory and office in July. By the end of the year‚ employees numbered more than 50. Whilst doing this Matsushita continued to research new products and in 1923 he invented a new type of bicycle lamp called the “bullet lamp” due to its bullet like shape (seen in the picture to the right.)(http://panasonic.net/history/corporate/chronicle/1923-01.html). This was a breakthrough in bicycle lamps at the time as many cyclists used oil lanterns as a way of illumination. Although there were some battery
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Merged Nationalist Party with PNF [1923] to give fascism more respectability [Alfredo Rocco and Luigi Federzoni had influential connections to landowners‚ industrialists‚ armed forces‚ civil service and royal court. De Stefani‚ Mussolini’s finance minister‚ pursued orthodox financial polices to help upturn the economy in 1924-25. Cancelled Falconi and Visocchi Decrees [legalized peasant land seizures] Banned strikes and ended independent unions in 1926 1923 Education Act to make religious education
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he was able to choose the Chancellor‚ giving Hitler and the Nazi Party more power. The Hyperinflation Crisis of 1923 is also an example of the weak Weimar Republic. However‚ the weaknesses of the Weimar Republic was not the only aid to the growth and rise to power of the Nazi Party‚ as there were many external factors‚ such as the Dawes Plan‚ linked to the Hyperinflation Crisis of 1923‚ which exposed Germany to the Great Depression‚ as well as the Treaty of Versailles‚ and its many points including
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International organizations provide a common platform wherein representatives from different parts of the world can discuss and evolve solutions for contemporary issues. In common parlance‚ it is well known as intergovernmental organizations. The World trade Organization‚ European Union and Council of Europe are international Organizations to name a few. Evolution Of International Organizations There was need to have a neutral forum where countries could participate and discuss problems that were
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Why did the Munich Putsch take place? In November 1923‚ Hitler tried to take advantage of the crisis involving the Weimar Government by initiating a revolution in Munich. It seemed like the perfect opportunity but there was poor planning and misjudgement which resulted in failure and Hitler going to prison. On the 8th November 1923 the Bavarian Prime Minister‚ Gustav Kahr‚ was holding a meeting with around 3‚000 business men. Gustav was joined by some of the most senior men in Bavarian politics
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economy was at an rapid downpour. “In 1913 the government was spending approximately 20.5 marks per resident”. Many families could not even afford a loaf of bread‚ which cost 250 marks in January 1923‚ cost over 200 thousand marks in November of 1923. Germany did not pay its reparations‚ in January 1923 French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr which was where most German goods were made. Many could argue that during this period of time goods could’ve been made elsewhere‚ but during the depression
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