Dates Flashcards
Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates
9th November 1918
The armistice is signed
11th November 1918
The Spartacus League staged a revolt in Berlin
January 1919
Execution of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg (the leaders of the revolt)
15th January 1919
Writing of the 5 point program
Kapp Putsch
1920
Hitler became the leader of the Nazi party
The SA is founded
1921
France & Belgium take over the Ruhr
January 1923
Gustav Streseman became chancellor
August 1923 (to November, he became foreign minister)
Munich putsch
November 1923
- Ban on the Nazi party lifted
- First Nuremberg rally
- Readopted 25 points
- Germany divided into 34 districts, a Guuleier was appointed to run each
- Hitler youth founded
- SS founded
1925
Wall street crash
1929
Bruning appointed chancellor
1930
Reichstag elections (107 Nazi seats)
September 1930
Presidential elections, a second round of voting was needed due to Hitler’s success
1932
Franz Von Papen appointed chancellor
May 1932
Reichstag elections Nazis become the largest single party
July 1932
General Von Schleicher appointed chancellor
December 1932
Hitler became chancellor
30th January 1933
The Reichstag fire
27th February 1933
The Enabling Law was passed
23rd March 1933
The Gestapo was founded
26th April 1933
Night of the long knives
30th June 1934
Kristellnacht (night of broken glass)
9th November 1938