Effects of the Ruhr crisis One of the responses to the occupation was strikes.

. Passive resistance movements were set up by industrialists with investments in the Ruhr. 1.Workers also opposed the occupation through destroying goods and otherwise hindering production thereof and resources. 2.France responded by taking goods and resources by force and by sending their own workers into the Ruhr. They also arrested figures of the resistance movement. The general crisis, along with the present condition of German economy caused a hyperinflation. 1.This resulted in the value of the German currency dropping drastically (partially due to the excessive production of money as a measure to pay off debts and compensate for the resistance of the Ruhr occupation. 2. The decrease in the value of the currency caused desperation. The situation in Germany paved way for belief systems such as Nazism and Communism (as for example seen in the attempted Nazi putsch of Munich) and the Weimar republic itself was on the verge of breakdown. Unemployment increased. The occupation hit German people hard. 1.The people with fixed incomes disappeared. 2.The people employed with salaries were also affected since raises could not follow the state of the currency. 3.Instances of zero stroke were also reported to be occurring. Germany was as a result no longer capable of paying the war reparations imposed on them. The Ruhr crisis increased the sympathy towards Germany. The occupation also caused a worsening of the French economy. As a result, the French people began to question the occupations execution, wanting an improvement of Europes economy. Britain and USA both opposed the occupation. Through pressure they were able to make France resign from this course of action. A solution was made with the Dawes plan which reduced and scheduled the payment that Germany owed from World War 1.

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