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French invasion of the ruhr
- German government unable to pay reparations
- French sent troops into Ruhr
- Main centre of Germany's coal, steel, and iron production
- Made German people angry
- Industrialists who had investments organised passive resistance campaign
- French brought in French workers to operate mines
- Began arresting leaders of the resistance
- Stresemann called off called off resistance
- Started paying reparations again
- French troops left Ruhr in 1925
- Led to German economy collapsing
- Large increase in unemployment and inflation
- Charles Dawes sent to investigate by Allied Reparations Comittee