Germany Dates Chapter 1: 1918-1929 Flashcards
First World War
1914-18
Start of the German Revolution
November 1918
Kaiser’s abdication
9th November 1918
Chancellor Max Von Baden gives his office to Friedrich Ebert
9th November 1918
6 moderate politicians form the Council Of People Representatives
10th November 1918
Armistice is signed
11th November 1918
The new Weimar Republic is agreed at the National Assembly
31st July 1919
The Treaty Of Versailles
28th June 1919
November Criminals
November 1918
The German Communist Party (KPD) is set up
December 1918
Emil Eichhorn, police chief in Berlin, is sacked by Friedrich
4th January 1919
Sparticists call for uprising and general strike in Berlin
6th January 1919
The Sparticist rebels are driven off the streets
13th January 1919
Rose Luxemberg (AKA Red Rosa) and Karl Liebknecht, Sparticist leaders, are arrested and brutally killed
16th January 1919
The Kapp Putsch
March 1920
French Occupation of the Ruhr
January 1923
Hyperinflation
1923
Gustav Stresemann becomes Chancellor
August 1923
State-owned Rentenbank - Rentenmark (later renamed Reichsmark)
November 1923
Independent national bank Reichsbank
August 1924
The Dawes Plan
April 1924
The Young Plan
August 1929
The Locarno Pact
1st December 1925
League of Nations
January 1920
Germany given place in League of Nations
September 1926
Friedrich Ebert dies
1925
Stresemann dies
3rd October 1929
The Unemployment Act
1927
Reich Pension Law
1920
Women given the right to vote and stand for elections
November 1918
First German film with sound
1930
