In January 1923 French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr, Germany's main industrial region, after Germany defaulted on deliveries of coal and timber owed as reparations after the First World War. French premier Raymond Poincaré hoped to force payment, or even to weaken Germany. The German government responded with a campaign of passive resistance, supporting strikers with money printed by the central bank, which worsened the hyperinflation that wrecked the German economy that year. There were clashes, sabotage and executions. Germany ended the resistance in September 1923, and the Dawes Plan of 1924 set out a more realistic payment schedule, after which the troops left.
Before and after
- from 30 December 1922 to 26 December 1991Soviet Union
- 1923Rise of serialism
- 1923Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory
- 1923Construction of Forbidden City
- from 11 January 1923 to 25 August 1925Occupation of the Ruhr
- 4 February 1923Birth of Conrad Bain
- 10 February 1923Death of Wilhelm Röntgen
- 3 March 1923Time
- 10 March 1923Founding of Villarreal CF
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