Germany 1919-1939 Revision Timeline Flashcards
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January 1919
Creation of Weimar Republic
Sparticist uprising
November 1919
Hitler joins the German Worker’s Party
March 1920
Kapp Putsch
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March 1920
Hitler becomes party leader
Party is renamed ‘The National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi party)
1921
Hitler set up SA
1923
Occupation of the Ruhr (by the French)
1923
Hyperinflation
August 1923
Stresemann becomes Chancellor
November 1923
Beer Hall Putsch / Munich Putsch
November 1923
Stresemann calls of passive resistance in Ruhr
February 1924
Hitler’s publicity trial
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1924
Mein Kampf written
Change in the Nazi policy, first election 52 seats won
April 1924
Dawes plan to aid German economy
1925
Von Hindenburg elected as president
1925
Locarno treaties
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1929
Wall Street Crash, The Great Depression, The Young Plan
1930
Election = Nazi Party wins 107 seats
1932
Nazis become the largest single party with 230 seats
November 1932
Von Papen loses chancellorship
December 1932
Von Schleicher becomes chancellor
January 1933
Von Papen makes deal with Hitler
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February 1933
Reichstag fire
Enabling act
May 1933
Trade Unions banned
June 1933
Concordat with the Pope
July 1933
Political parties banned
November 1933
‘Strength through Joy’ worker schemes introduced
April 1934
People’s courts
June 1934
The Night of Long Knifes
August 1934
President Von Hindenburg dies
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1935
Job creation schemes:
Germany is openly rearming
Reich Labour Service (RAD)
September 1935
The Nuremberg Laws
1936
Berlin Olympics
1938
Unemployment reduced to 0.5 million (invisible unemployed)
April 1938
Jews had to register properties
June 1938
Jewish doctors / dentists / lawyers unable to treat Aryan patients
October 1938
Jewish passports require a red ‘J’ stamp
November 1938
Kristallnacht
November 1938
Jewish children only allowed in Jewish schools
December 1938
Jewish businesses completely confiscated
January 1939
New names for Jews - Sarah and Israel
September 1939
Germany invades Poland