Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Ruhr Crisis/ Locarno Springs
- RUHR
- ANGLO AMERICAN GUARANTEE
- US and britain agree to aid france in any aggressive action against it
- Britain backed out
- France disagreed with
Britain wanting to rebuild
Germany's economy so the
British could trade with them
- France wanted to weaken
Germany's economy as much as
possible with reparations
- WHAT STARTS THE RUHR CRISIS?
- Germany missed a delivery of timber (reparations)
- France and Belgium invaded Ruhr Region
- Britain was STRONGLY against it
- FRANCE'S GOAL
- collect missing payment by taking goods from
mines and factories and shipping them to
france
- GERMANY'S RESPONSE
- German workers didn't cooperate, protested by destroying goods/mines/factories
- Broke out into violent conflict
- Germany printed more money to help workers
- leads to inflation
- LOCARNO SPRINGS
- New German Chancellor was appointed
- Gustar Stresmann
- He called off Ruhr crisis and announced
that Germany would follow Treaty of
Versailles, and accept borders with France
and Belgium
- LOCARNO TREATY (1925)
- agreement between Belgium, France, UK, and Germany
- Germany agrees to boundaries of ToV
- Germany accepts borders with France and
Belgium, guaranteed by Italy and UK
- Germany
able to join
League of
Nations
- resulted in sense of excitement and optimism
- germany gains seat on League of Nations
- WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR
FRENCH/GERMAN CONFLICT
- one step towards reconcilliation
- meant Germany could grow economically
without being a threat to others
- French
and Britain
ALSO
began to
reconcile
over
differences
that had
driven
them apart
- tension between allies and germany was resolving
- allied troops left the rhine
- supervision of Germany stopped
- Germany became independent again
- DOWNSIDES
- germany still in cooperation with ussr
- germany could still avoid disarmament
- germany hadn't agreed on eastern borders
- Germany
- Eastern borders of germany hadn't been
fixed because Britain refused to
guarantee the countries to the east of
Gremany
- led germany to believe
that it could change its
eastern borders with little
objection from the allies