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    The occupation of the Ruhr (German: Ruhrbesetzung) was the period from 11 January 1923 to 25 August 1925 when French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr...
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    Ruhr district of Germany". In 1924 the English and American press was still talking of the "French occupation of the Ruhr Valley" or "Ruhr District". A...
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    in 1922, the occupation was expanded to include the industrial Ruhr valley from 1923 to 1925. In the early years of the occupation, a number of separatist...
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    The Ruhr area was Germany's primary industrial area during the early- to mid-20th century. Most factories were located there. The occupation of the Ruhr...
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    The Rhenish Republic (German: Rheinische Republik) was proclaimed at Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) in October 1923 during the occupation of the Ruhr by troops...
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    number of factors came together in 1923, including printing currency to finance the costs of passive resistance to the occupation of the Ruhr, to cause...
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  • Black Reichswehr (category Military of the Weimar Republic)
    role in his decision was the London ultimatum of 5 May 1921, which threatened an occupation of the heavily industrialized Ruhr district if Germany did...
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    The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of...
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    Dawes Plan (category History of the foreign relations of the United States)
    stabilise the German currency and ended the occupation of the Ruhr. It resulted in a brief period of economic recovery in the second half of the 1920s, although...
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    Cuno cabinet (category Cabinets of Germany)
    the occupation authorities. The Ruhr economy, the industrial heartland of Germany, came almost to a complete stop. The German government paid for the...
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  • German October (category Politics of the Weimar Republic)
    Three major events in 1923, the occupation of the Ruhr, separatist unrest in the Rhineland and the Palatinate, and the danger of Hitler's far-right beer hall...
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    The Ruhr uprising (German: Ruhraufstand), or March uprising (Märzaufstand), was a left-wing workers' revolt in the Ruhr region of Germany in March and...
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    May 1924 German federal election (category Elections in the Weimar Republic)
    occupation of the Ruhr, conflict between the federal and state governments, as well as the Beer Hall Putsch and German October. A national state of emergency...
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    the economic occupation of the Ruhr, the French-Belgian railway Régie, and finally, the military occupation of the Ruhr within a year. The great conclusion...
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    during the occupation of the Ruhr, before decreasing to 60,000 men by 1926. Germans viewed the use of French colonial troops as a deliberate act of humiliation...
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    support from the United States. Thus, the Dawes Plan was negotiated after Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré's occupation of the Ruhr, and then the Young Plan...
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    Wilhelm Cuno (category People from the Province of Saxony)
    who was the chancellor of Germany from 1922 to 1923 for a total of 264 days. His tenure included the beginning of the occupation of the Ruhr by French...
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  • The actual boundaries of the Ruhr vary slightly depending on the source, but a good working definition is to define the Lippe and Ruhr as its northern...
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  • Küstrin Putsch (category Politics of the Weimar Republic)
    the French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr. It failed both in Berlin and in the eastern German town of Küstrin when the colonel in charge of the Küstrin...
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    Ferdinand Buisson (category Members of the 8th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic)
    Franco-German reconciliation, especially after the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923. An early supporter of the League of Nations, he invited German pacifists to...
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  • 1923 in Germany (category Years of the 20th century in Germany)
    November) 11 January – French and Belgian troops enter the Ruhr in the Occupation of the Ruhr because of Germany’s refusal to pay war reparations, causing...
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    admired by members of the paramilitary right during the occupation of the Ruhr who had been executed by French authorities in May of 1923. Evidence connecting...
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  • 1924 in Germany (category Years of the 20th century in Germany)
    Ruhr in the Occupation of the Ruhr during the London Conference of World War I reparations. 29 August – The German Reichstag approves the Dawes Plan....
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    problems. The British Occupation Zone included the Ruhr industrial region, which had experienced the heaviest bombing and therefore faced the greatest...
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    Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (category Commanders of the Order of the Crown (Belgium))
    graduated from the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, the French military academy, in 1924. After service with the French Occupation of the Ruhr and in Morocco...
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    Raymond Poincaré (category Members of the 4th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic)
    1923 he ordered the Occupation of the Ruhr to enforce payment of German reparations. By this time Poincaré was seen, especially in the English-speaking...
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  • Kampfbund (category Paramilitary organisations of the Weimar Republic)
    announcing the end to the resistance against the French occupation of the Ruhr, whose apparent capitulation infuriated the nationalists and freebooters. The Kampfbund...
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    Rentenmark (category Economy of the Weimar Republic)
    Reichsmark. After the Occupation of the Ruhr in early 1923 by French and Belgian troops, referred to as the Ruhrkampf, the German government of Wilhelm Cuno...
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    following the French Occupation of the Ruhr. The Bottleneck was eventually reincorporated with the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau. The territory that...
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    contingent—entered the region, initiating the Occupation of the Ruhr. The French Premier Raymond Poincaré was deeply reluctant to order the occupation and had only...
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