The Young Plan 1929 further helped germany reparations cut to 25% of original amount! Period to pay them back extended to 59 years!
The Locarno Pact 1925 Britain France Germany Italy and Belgium agreed existing borders of Germany France and Belgium should be kept the same forever but no pact about Germanys borders with Czechoslovakio - deliberate in hope Austria and Germany would become one country.
The League of Nations The treaty of Versaillle forbid Germany joining the League of Nations. but Stresemann wanted to join as soon as possible so Germany was seen as equal with other powers. Joined in 1926
Was Germany breaking the Treaty of Versailles? Yes! It was building up armed forces all along. The allied forces knew this but they weren't worried because at this time the German army was never strong enough to threaten international peace
The Rentenmark 1923 Gustav Stresemann (Chancellor) brought in a new currency (rentenmark) to tackle hyper inflation. All old bank notes were destroyed. This began to work and German'ys currency stopped falling
Reparations 1924 Streseman became foreign minister. He wanted Germany to restart reparation payments. So did the allies as needed money to repay debts to the USA
The Dawes plan 1924 Charles Dawe devised a plan to help Germany -agreed to give the allies some industrial output. In return France took some French troops from the Ruhr
