1918 - 1929 Flashcards
1918 (post war conditions)
- Fuel shortages
- Starvation
- Flu virus
- Army forced to retreat
October 2nd 1918
Allies say they will make peace if Germany becomes more democratic - gives more power to Reichstag
November 2nd 1918
Armistice signed. Kaiser abdicates and Ebert becomes leader of Germany.
January 5th 1919, January 10th
Sparticist uprising
- they occupy public buildings and organise a strike
- the workers would not comply and didn’t want to join the uprising
- Freikorps crushed the uprising
- Rosa Luxembourg was murdered
January 10th 1920
Treaty of versailles comes into affect
- War guilt clause
- £6600 million in reparations
- Army reduced to 100,000
- 6 battleships
- no airforce
- 13% of land reduction
- no troops in the Rhineland
- polish corridor
- all colonies taken away
June 28th 1919
Treaty of Versailles signes
March 13th 1920
Kapp Putsch
- 12,00 Freikorps marched into Berlin in protest of being disbanded
- The gorvenment fled for 4 days
- Wolfgang Kapp took charge
- Major protests against them, people wouldnt cooperate.
- Wolfgang had to flee :(
March 1920
Red rising in the Ruhr
- 50,000 communists occupy the Ruhr but are crushed the Freikorps
December 1922
Germany announces it it cannot pay reparations for the next 3 years. France is like nahhhhh
January 1923
- 60,000 French and Belgian troops take over the Ruhr
- Passive resistance is instilled by government
- This kickstarts hyperinflation
September 1923
Chancellor Stresemann is appointed
- calls off passive resistance
- promises to pay reparations
- french and belgian are like god fineee and leave
October 1923
Stresemann creates the Rentenmark
November 8th 1923
Munich Putsch
- Nazis had 55,000 members
- Hitler prearranged a rebellion with Kahr and Lossow, (two nationalist polititions) but they backed out
- 2000 men marched into the centre of Munich while Kahr was making a speech in the Beer Hall
- At gunpoint, Hitler forced the two to agree to the rebellion but as soon as he let them leave they backed out
- Next day 16 Nazis were killed in a squabble (hehe) with police and Hilter was arrested for treason
April 1924
Hilter sentenced to 5 years in prison even though it should have been death. Judge was leniant. Also, Hitler used trial as a publicity tool. He became a nationalist hero.
1924
DAWES PLAN
- Charles Dawes, an american budgeter, agreed to allow Germany to have longer to pay reparations
- He also agreed to loan German 800 million gold marks to kickstart their economy
February 1925
Hindenburg elected as president. He was a popular WW1 leader.
October 1925
LOCARNO PACT
- Britain, France, Belgium, Italy and Germany agreed not to invade each other and to peacefully settle any disputes.
May 1926
Hitler becomes leader of Nazis
October 1926
Germany is allowed to join the League of Nations as a worl power status. Stresemann was awarded a noble peace prize
1929
YOUNG PLAN
-Lowered reparations like a lot.
October 1929
Stresemann the lad dies :(((((((
1929
Wall Street Crash in America means they withdraw their loans to Germany and the Germans are, shall we put it, fucked.
