... same amount of food you had to pay much more money. Before World War 1 many countries used the Gold standard because, although each country had a limited amount of gold, it stopped inflation. Another negative thing of the gold standard is that as the price of gold is high, your currency is high and this leads to expensive exports and cheap imports severely damaging your ... economy. By 1920 most countries stopped using the gold standard because it could not keep up with the market prices and as a result many countries suffered from Inflation. Also as economist john Maynard Keynes saw, t...

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... and 30,000 tons of ammunition. The Soviets expected the Republicans to pay for these military supplies in gold. On the outbreak of the war Spain had the world's fourth largest reserves of gold. During the war approximately $500 million, or two-thirds of Spain's gold reserves, were shipped to the Soviet Union. This flagrant abuse of Spain's instability and volatile state by ... ...

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... to manage the difficult task of reparations. Following the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was required to pay the cost of war, with the final reparation figure totalling 132 000 million gold marks ($US 32 Billion). The crippled Germany economy was lacking the capacity to meet reparation costs and the Reparations Commission set up a committee, led by the American Banker Charles G. Dawes ... ...

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... respected him and therefore every year on August 12th, the birthday of his mother, the Motherhood cross was awarded to women who had given birth to a large amount of children (Gold-8 children, Silver-6 children and Bronze-4 children). Propaganda encouraged this as it was seen as an honor to receive one of these medals from Hitler and the majority of women wanted ... ...

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... to be placed under the control of the League of Nations. The Saar coalmining region was to be placed under the leagues control until 1935 and all foreign currency and gold was to be confiscated. A union with Austria was forbidden and Germany was ordered to pay £6,600 million in reparations in war damages and pensions inflicted on Britain, Italy and ... ...

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... of all Germany's industrial and agricultural resources. This was replaced in 1924 by a new permanent currency, the Reichsmark. The German people had confidence in this as it was backed by gold like that of most other currencies throughout the world. Stresemann made contributions to Weimar stability with his foreign policy too. Instead of being hostile to the Versailles Treaty and trying ... ...

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