Dates Flashcards
When was Franz Ferdinand assassinated?
28 June 1914
When did WW1 begin?
28 July 1914
When was WW1 stuck in a stalemate?
At the end of 1914
When was the document ‘The Treaty of Versailles’ produced?
June 1919
When was Nicholas II abdicated?
16 March 1917
When did Lenin return to Russia?
April 1917
When did the Bolsheviks seize power from the provisional government?
October 1917
When did Russia become a one party state?
January 1918
When was the Treaty of Brest Litvosk signed between Russia and Germany?
March 1918
When were the Romanov family killed?
16 July 1918
When did Adolf Hitler and the Nazis come to power?
1933
When did the mass killing of millions of Jews occur?
During the second world war which was from 1939-1945
When was the defeat of Nazi Germany?
1945
1933 March
A boycott of Jewish shops organised for one day
April 1933
A law removed all Jewish and political opponents from public service.
October 1933
Removed Jews from the media
May 1935
All Jews remived from the army
September 1935
Anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws introduced:
1. The Reich citizen law’: declared that only those of German or related blood were eligible to German citizens (citizens of the ‘Reich’).
- Law for protection of German Blood and German Honour : forbade marriages and sexual relations between Jews and Germans. It was a law designed to protect German blood and punishment for breaking it was severe.
March 1936
Withdrawal of financial assistance for Jewish children
October 1936
Jewish teachers forbidden to teach non Jewish children.
1937
Jewish people unable to gain a university degree
1938
. All Jews must tell the government how much wealth they have and where it is.
. All Jewish women must have ‘Sara’ and Jewish men ‘Israel” in their name.
• A red ‘Jew’ stamp must be in all Jewish passports.
• All Jewish Children banned from attending German Schools
. Jewish doctors lose right to work
. Forced to wear distincitve clothing such as a star on their clothes
February 1923
In February 1923 there was an economic crisis. The
government printed more & more money until it was
worthless. It was called hyperinflation.
March 1923
In March 1923 Because Germany couldn’t pay France their
reparations the French invaded parts of Germany and took
goods instead. The small German army couldn’t stop them.
Novemeber 1923
November 1923 Germans were angry that the government wasn’t trying to do
anything to stop hyper-inflation or get the French out. Hitler decided to stage a
‘putsch’ in Munich, and he, the Nazis and the SA tried to overthrow the
government. But he and others were shot and imprisoned instead.
1924-25
1924-1925 Hitler was sent to prison for trying to
overthrow the German government. This got him
a lot of press coverage, especially when he
decided to write a book about his thoughts, ‘Mein
Kampf’.
1927
1927 The Nazis hold their first massive political rally, the
Nuremburg Rally, to attract people to their cause.
1929
1929: there is another economic crisis called ‘the Great Depression’. The USA
ask for their money back (the loans) from Germany, who then can’t afford to
pay France. France invades the country again and unemployment in Germany
reaches 4 million.
January 1933
Jan. 1933 The Nazi Party becomes the largest political party
in Germany and President Hindenburg is forced to make
Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
Feb 1933
Feb. 1933 the Reichstag (German Parliament building) is
set on fire and the Nazis point the finger at the
Communist party. Hitler creates the ‘Enabling Law’ in
March 1933 which allows him to make up laws in ‘an
emergency’. He bans other political parties.
April 1933
April. 1933. Hitler creates the Gestapo, a secret police to
do his bidding and capture political enemies. He sets up
the first concentration camp for them.
When did WW1 end?
Novemeber 1918
When was the Beer Hall Putsch?
1923
When was Hitler arrested?
1923
When was Hitler released from prison?
1924
When did the Nazis become the largest single party?
1932
When was the Enabling act passed?
1933
When was the Night of the Long knives?
June 1934
When did Hitler become a dictator?
2 August 1934
1933
Hitler built up Germany’s armed forces
1936
Hitler introduced conscription
1937
Hitler helped the Spanish dictator to win the civil war in Spain
March 1938
Austria would be joined with Germany
September 1938
Hitler signed the Munich aggreement which allowed him to take over Sudetenland
March 1939
Hitler invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia
September 1939
German troops invaded Poland
When was the Blitz?
December 1940
