Germany was a country built upon its proud military history. Parades, marches, displays of pageantry, and military bands were common sites throughout cities in Germany long before the Prussian Empire. Order, discipline, and pride were traits that defined Germany. In 1914, Germany provoked a World War that plunged the cou

To tackle this extreme sum of money, the Weimar Republic began taxing its already impoverished people. When tax revenue failed to meet the needs of the annual payments to the Allies, the Weimar Government ordered its treasury to begin printing more money. At a time when inflation was already bad, this “solution” plunged Germany into further economic collapse. In 1919, one U.S. dollar was equivalent to 493 marks. By the end of 1923, the mark was worthless. One U.S. dollar was now equivalent to 4.3 billion marks. In Germany, a loaf of bread cost .63 marks in 1918. By November of 1923, the value had skyrocketed to well over 201,000,000,000 marks. The inflation of the early 1920s brought the downfall of the middle and upper classes of Germany (Riedlsperger, Internet).

In 1919, Woodrow Wilson proclaimed his dream that World War I would be “the war to end all wars.” Through his League of Nations, Wilson hoped for “a just and lasting peace” (Beck et. al 760). However, his Allied counterparts disagreed. At the Paris Peace Conference, in which Germany did not receive an invitation, Georges Clemenceau of France hammered out a plan that would punish Germany for its actions. His plan included a colossal $338 billion war reparations payment due to the Allied nations. The settlements devised at Versailles represented, as one observer noted, a “peace built on quicksand” (Beck, et. al 762).

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