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Germany Key Dates Flashcards

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Germany topic dates

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1890-1945

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Germany become a country

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1871 (39 states unify)

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Wilhelm becomes Kaiser

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June 1888

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Kaiser abdicates the throne

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9th November 1918 (Weimar gov temporarily takes over)

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End date of WW1

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11th Nov 1918

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Treaty of Versailles signed

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28th June 1919

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Spartacists Uprising

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January 1919

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Weimar Republic created

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January 1919

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Kapp Putsch

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March 1920

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Red Rising

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March 1920

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Ruhr Crisis

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1923

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Hyperinflation

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1923

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Munich Putsch

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November 1923

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Gustav Stresemann’s solutions

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1924-1929

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Germany’s Golden Age/ Weimar Culture

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1924-1929

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Wall Street Crash

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1929

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Germany’s Depression

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1929-1932

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First Reichstag election with Nazis

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1930 (Nazis win 107 seats becoming 2nd largest party)

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Second Reichstag election with Nazis

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July 1932 (Nazis get 37% of votes becoming largest party)

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Third Reichstag election with Nazis

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Nov 1932 (Nazis get 33% of votes, losing 2 mil in 4 months)

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Hitler becomes chancellor

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30th of January 1933

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Reichstag burns down after being set on fire

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27th of Feb 1933

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Reichstag Fire Decree

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28th of Feb 1933

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Fourth Reichstag election with Hitler as Chancellor

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March 5th 1933

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Reichstag forced to pass Enabling Act

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23rd Mar 1933

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Night of the Long Knives

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30th June- 2nd July 1934

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President Hindenburg dies/ Hitler declares himself President

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2nd Aug 1934

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Nazis have a large control over women, youth, work schemes, propaganda etc

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1933-1939

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Nazis murder 70,000 disabled people

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1939-1941

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Anti Semitic Nuremberg Laws

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1935

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Kristallnacht

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Nov 1938

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Kindertransport

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Dec 1938- Aug 1939

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Relocation of Jews to Ghettos

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1939

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Liquidation of the Ghettos

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1941

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Key themes/events between 1890-1914

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-Kaiser Wilhelm II on the throne
-Industrialisation
-Navy Laws
-Growth of socialism
-Influence of Prussian militarism

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Key themes/events between 1914-1918

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-WW1
-Germany loses WW1 because Britain blockades German ports
-30,000 civilians starve

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Key themes/events in 1918

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-Low morale, malnutrition and extreme parties in Germany after WW1
-Kaiser abdicates the throne after riots and rebellions in Germany’s Navy
-Ebert (leader of SDP) temporarily takes over and a new Weimar gov is formed
-He promised to hold an election in 1919 which he won, becoming the President
-Germany has proportional representation which creates weak governments
-President can rule under emergency Article 48 degree without Reichstag
-Many ex-soldiers feel they have been betrayed by the new Weimar gov (stab in the back theory)

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Key themes/events in 1919

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-Treaty of Versailles signed 28th June produced by France, UK and US
-Germany lost land, money, army and had to take full blame for starting the war
-Spartacists Uprising Jan 1919 where Communist Spartacus League go to Berlin to fight for their political beliefs
-The plan failed but made the Weimar gov look weak, unprotected

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Key theme/event in 1920

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-Kapp Putsch in March 1920 where this fascist (right wing) group take over Berlin
-President Ebert and his gov fled but Wolfgang Kapp didn’t have the support of Berlin workers who went on strike
-He was forced to leave and Ebert came back into power

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Key themes/events in 1923

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-Hyperinflation due to gov paying workers in the Ruhr for going on strike against French and Belgian troops
-Printing more money= money became worth less, Germany currency is worthless
-Munich Putsch 1923 where Hitler tries to take over Munich but fails. He gets arrested and whilst spending 9 months in prison , he writes Mein Kampf (My struggle)

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Key themes/events between 1924-1929

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-Germany’s ‘Golden Age’
-Stresemann fixes hyperinflation, relations with countries and borrows money from US to pay off reparations (Dawes and Young’s Plan)
-Weimar culture (Art, Literature, Cinema and Nightlife)
-Hindenburg becomes president in Feb 1925
-Nazi Party only wins 2.6% of votes in 1928 and so Hitler reorganises the party by using SA (Brownshirts) to intimidate people to vote for them

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Key themes between 1929/1930

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-Wall St Crash 1929= US asks for money back putting Germany into a Depression
-6 million unemployed, 1/3 live on benefits
-Weimar gov is weak, people lose faith, start looking at extreme parties/strong leaders
-Nazis became second largest party in 1930 (107 seats)

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Key themes/events in 1932

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-July 1932= Nazis win 37% and become largest party by far, Hitler wants to be chancellor but Hindenburg refuses, appointing an unpopular Von Papen instead
-Hitler rejects role of Vice-Chancellor which Gregor Strasser critcises, getting him kicked. Nazis lose lots of elections and start to go bankrupt
-Nov 1932= Nazis get 33%, losing 2 mil in 4 months (largely due to SA’s violence concerning people). Hitler considers suicide

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Key themes/events in 1933

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-Hitler becomes chancellor 30th of Jan 1933 (only 30% of his gov were Nazis)
-Reichstag burns down 27th Feb by Dutch communist Van der Lubbe
-Nazis pass Reichstag Fire Decree 28th Feb
-Day of Potsdam Mar 1933= Hitler opens new Reichstag
-Enabling Act Mar 1933 = Trade unions and any other political parties are banned

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Key themes/events in 1934

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-Night of the Long Knives June 30th 1934
-Hindenburg dies Aug 2nd 1934 so Hitler combines the role of President and Chancellor to become the overall leader (Der Furher)

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Key themes between 1933-1939

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-Women and children affected by Nazi Ideology
-National Labour Service (RAD), Public work schemes, Rearmament, Invisible Unemployment
-German Labour Front ran the Strength through Joy (KDF) and Beauty of Labour (SDA)
-Christianity affected and the Concordat
-Jews affected, 1935 Nuremberg laws, 1938 Kristallnacht etc
-Joseph Goebbels and Nazi propaganda
-SS and Gestapo frightened and intimidated people

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Key themes/events between 1939-1941

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-WW2 began
-Euthanasia program and sterilisation of disabled and mentally ill
-Half a million tramps, homeless, alcoholics, gypsies, homosexuals, prostitutes and black people were all sent to concentration camps
-Aryan superiority
-Rationing and women being used in industry started due to the war

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Key themes/events between 1942-1945

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-Final solution and ghettos
-Wannasee Conference
-Fear of the SS and Gestapo,
-Nazi police state and Himmler
-Opposition from Anti-Nazi youth groups (Edelweiss Pirates etc)
-Opposition to the Nazis from the Church and the army (July 1944 bomb plot)
-Joseph Goebbels and Propaganda
-Hitler commits suicide and Germany lose WW2
-Germany split in Potsdam Conference and Denazification

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