Germany Dates Flashcards
Stresemann becomes Chancellor of Germany
1923
Wall Street Crash in America
1929
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
1933
World War 2 begins
1939
Germany is defeated in WW2
1945
Hitler commits suicide
1945
The German kaiser abdicates
1918
Treaty of Versailles announced
1919
Spartacist (communist) uprising
1919
Invasion of the Ruhr
1923
Hyperinflation
1923
Munich Putsch
1923
German Workers Party formed by Anton Drexler
1919
Adolf Hitler sent to spy on the German Worker’s Party
1919
German Worker’s Party changes its name to the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazis).
1920
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party
1921
SA is formed (also known as the brownshirts)
1921
Hitler put on trial and sentenced to 5 years in prison
1924
SS formed (Hitler’s personal bodyguard)
1925
Hitler Youth formed
1926
Nazi party gains 107 seats
1930
Nazi party gains nearly 200 seats and is the largest single party in the Reichstag
1932
Reichstag Fire
27 Feb 1933
With Communists banned, Hitler now able to pass the Enabling Act
March 1933
Gestapo formed
1933
Trade unions banned
May 1933
All political parties except the Nazis were banned
July 1933
Night of the Long Knives
30th June 1934
Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Fuhrer.
August 1934
Army swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler
August 1934
Conscription introduced by the Nazis
1935
Nuremburg laws ban relationships between Jews and Aryans
1935
Berlin Olympics
1936
Membership of Hitler Youth made compulsory
1936
Kristallnacht
November 1938
Hitler invades Poland
1939
Germany invades Russia
1941
Wannsee Conference approved plans for the Final Solution
1942
Bombing of Dresden
1945
July Bomb plot to assassinate Hitler fails
July 1944
Kapp Putsch
1920
Dawes Plan to give Germany more time to pay off reparations
1924
Young Plan reduces reparations
1929
Germany joins the League of Nations
1926
Locarno Pact
1925
New currency, the Rentenmark, is introduced to deal with hyperinflation.
1924
Concordat signed between Nazis and Catholic Church
1933
End of WW1
1918