Dates Flashcards
When was the Reichstag fire?
February 1933
When was the Enabling Act, the elections and the establishment of concentration camps?
March 1933
When were Jewish businesses boycotted?
April 1933
When was the Concordat signed?
July 1933
When was a one party state established?
July 1933
When was the sterilisation law?
July 1933
When was Hitler appointed Chancellor?
10th January 1933
When was the confessional church established?
1934
When was the night of the Long knives?
November 1934
When did Hindenburg die?
1934
When did Hitler combine office of Chancellor and president?
1934, following the death of Hindenburg
When were the Nuremberg race laws?
1935
When was Lebensborn introduced?
1935
When were socialists and communists arrested on mass?
1935
When did Goering introduce the four year plan to help prepare for war?
1936
When did Nazis relax policy towards women due to needing workers?
1937
When was Kristallnacht and the decree for the ‘Struggle Against the Gypsy Plague?’
1938
When was it made compulsory to join the Hitler Youth?
1939
When was the euthanasia campaign started?
1939
When was Bishop Galen’s sermon against euthanasia?
1941
When was the Wansee conference and what happened?
1942 - agreed on the Final Solution for the Jewish problem
What happened to the edelweiss pirates in 1944?
They were executed in Cologne
When was the Yalta conference?
February 1945
When did Hitler die?
April 1945
When did Germany surrender?
May 1945
When was the Potsdam conference?
July - August 1945
When did the KPD in the SPD merge in the eastern zone of Germany and what party did they form?
1946, the Socialist Unity party
When was RE removed from the East German education system and under what law?
1946 - the Law for the Democratisation of German schools.
When was Bizonia formed?
1947
What was the Marshall Plan and when was it implemented?
1947 - offered aid to Europe
What was the Truman doctrine and when was it announced?
1947 - offered support to nations fighting Communism
When was currency reformed in the western zone?
1948 - the Eastern zone followed
When did the Berlin blockade start?
1948
When was Trizonia formed?
1949
When did the Berlin blockade end?
1949
When did West Germany (the Federal Republic) come into existence?
May 1949
When was Adenauer elected Chancellor of West Germany?
August 1949
What organisation did West Germany join in 1949?
The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation
When did the East Germany (Democratic Republic) come into existence?
October 1949
When was the Stasi created in East Germany?
1950
When did war break out in Korea?
1950
When did West Germany join the European Coal and Steel Community?
1951
When was the first series of collectivisation in East Germany?
1952
When were Stalin’s notes and what did they suggest?
1952 – unification of Germany
When were the SRP outlawed in West Germany?
1952
When did Stalin die?
1953
When was the Berlin Rising?
1953
When did Adenauer win his second election?
1953
Which youth service was reintroduced and imposed in east Germany in 1954?
Youth Dedication Service
When did West Germany join NATO? What was the East German response?
1954 - the Warsaw Pact.
When was the West German army recreated?
1955
When did Adenauer visit Moscow the return of former prisoner of wars?
1955
When were the KPD outlawed West Germany?
1956
When was the Hungarian uprising?
1956
When did Adenauer win his third election and what was special about it?
1957 – he won an overall majority
When was the EEC (European Economic Community) established?
1957
When did the CDU denounce the Ahlen programme?
1957
When was the second wave of collectivisation in east Germany?
1960
When was the Berlin Wall built?
1961
When did Adenauer win his fourth election and what had changed?
1961 – reduction in the number of seats
When was the Der Spiegel affair?
1962
When did Adenauer resign?
1963
What was introduced into east Germany in 1963?
The new economic system for planning and direction
When was the marriage law?
1935
When was it made easier for infertile couples to divorce?
1938
