Germany 1919-1939 Revision Timeline

Question 1

2

January 1919

Answer 1

Creation of Weimar Republic

Sparticist uprising

Question 2

November 1919

Answer 2

Hitler joins the German Worker’s Party

Question 3

March 1920

Answer 3

Kapp Putsch

Question 4

2

March 1920

Answer 4

Hitler becomes party leader

Party is renamed ‘The National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi party)

Question 5

1921

Answer 5

Hitler set up SA

Question 6

1923

Answer 6

Occupation of the Ruhr (by the French)

Question 7

1923

Answer 7

Hyperinflation

Question 8

August 1923

Answer 8

Stresemann becomes Chancellor

Question 9

November 1923

Answer 9

Beer Hall Putsch / Munich Putsch

Question 10

November 1923

Answer 10

Stresemann calls of passive resistance in Ruhr

Question 11

February 1924

Answer 11

Hitler’s publicity trial

Question 12

3

1924

Answer 12

Mein Kampf written

Change in the Nazi policy, first election 52 seats won

Question 13

April 1924

Answer 13

Dawes plan to aid German economy

Question 14

1925

Answer 14

Von Hindenburg elected as president

Question 15

1925

Answer 15

Locarno treaties

Question 16

3

1929

Answer 16

Wall Street Crash, The Great Depression, The Young Plan

Question 17

1930

Answer 17

Election = Nazi Party wins 107 seats

Question 18

1932

Answer 18

Nazis become the largest single party with 230 seats

Question 19

November 1932

Answer 19

Von Papen loses chancellorship

Question 20

December 1932

Answer 20

Von Schleicher becomes chancellor

Question 21

January 1933

Answer 21

Von Papen makes deal with Hitler

Question 22

2

February 1933

Answer 22

Reichstag fire
Enabling act

Question 23

May 1933

Answer 23

Trade Unions banned

Question 24

June 1933

Answer 24

Concordat with the Pope

Question 25

July 1933

Answer 25

Political parties banned

Question 26

November 1933

Answer 26

‘Strength through Joy’ worker schemes introduced

Question 27

April 1934

Answer 27

People’s courts

Question 28

June 1934

Answer 28

The Night of Long Knifes

Question 29

August 1934

Answer 29

President Von Hindenburg dies

Question 30

# 2 1935

Answer 30

Job creation schemes: Germany is openly rearming Reich Labour Service (RAD)

Question 31

September 1935

Answer 31

The Nuremberg Laws

Question 32

1936

Answer 32

Berlin Olympics

Question 33

1938

Answer 33

Unemployment reduced to 0.5 million (invisible unemployed)

Question 34

April 1938

Answer 34

Jews had to register properties

Question 35

June 1938

Answer 35

Jewish doctors / dentists / lawyers unable to treat Aryan patients

Question 36

October 1938

Answer 36

Jewish passports require a red ‘J’ stamp

Question 37

November 1938

Answer 37

Kristallnacht

Question 38

November 1938

Answer 38

Jewish children only allowed in Jewish schools

Question 39

December 1938

Answer 39

Jewish businesses completely confiscated

Question 40

January 1939

Answer 40

New names for Jews - Sarah and Israel

Question 41

September 1939

Answer 41

Germany invades Poland