... achievement in Germany. Artists, writers and poets flourished, especially in Berlin, and produced powerful paintings such as source A. Stresemann also showed great skill in foreign policy. In 1925 he signed the Locarno Treaties, guaranteeing not to change Germany's Western borders with France and Belgium. As a result, in 1926 Germany was accepted into the League of Nations. Here he began to work, quietly but steadily, on reversing some of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, particularly those concerning reparations and German's eastern frontiers. By the time he died in 1929, Stresemann had negotiated the Young Plan, which further lightened the reparations burden on Germany and led to the evacuation of the Rhineland by British, French and Belgium troops. There were problems too during this period and Stresemann's foreign policy (joining the League of Nations) upset right-wing extremists such as the Nazis. However, it is clear that Stresemann certainly eased Germany's ...

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