Germany - Key Dates and Facts Flashcards

1
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When did the Kaiser abdicate

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1918

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2
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1918

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Kaiser Abdicates

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3
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When is the Treaty of Versailles Signed and the Weimar Constitution was formed?

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1919

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4
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1919 (end of war)

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the Treaty of Versailles Signed and the Weimar Constitution was formed

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5
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When was the Spartacists uprising

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1919

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6
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Jan 1919 (rebellion)

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Spartacists uprising

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7
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When was the Nazi party formed by Anton Drexler

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1920

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8
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March 1920

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Kapp Putsch - freikorps disband and join Hitler as SA

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9
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Kapp Putsch - freikorps disband and join Hitler as SA

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1920

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10
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1923!!!!!

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  • Jan - French invasion of the Ruhr
  • Hyperinflation
  • 8th November - Hitler leads the Munich Putsch
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11
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1924

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Gustav Stresemann leads Weimar to recovery with the Rentenmark and Dawes Plan

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12
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Gustav Stresemann leads Weimar to recovery with the Rentenmark and Dawes Plan

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1924

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13
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1925

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Hitler comes out of prison and begins to reorganise the party

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14
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Hitler comes out of prison and begins to reorganise the party

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1925

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15
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1925-28

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Weimar Golden Age - period of economic recovery

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16
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Weimar Golden Age - period of economic recovery

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1925-28

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17
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1928

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Nazi’s worst election ever - just 12 seats

18
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Nazi’s worst election ever - just 12 seats

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1928

19
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1929!!!

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  • Wall Street Crash
  • Stresemann dies
  • Germany bankrupt
20
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  • Wall Street Crash
  • Stresemann dies
  • Germany bankrupt
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1929!!!

21
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1930

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Nazi votes go up to 107 seats

22
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Nazi votes go up to 107 seats

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1930

23
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1932

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Nazis win 230 seats and become the biggest party

24
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Nazis win 230 seats and become the biggest party

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1932

25
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1933!!!!

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  • Feb - Reichstag fire (communists banned and article 48 used by Hitler, censorship and press
  • March - Enabling act. Hitler gains dictatorial powers
  • von Papen makes political deal with Hindenburg to make Hitler Chancellor
26
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  • Jan - von Papen makes political deal with Hindenburg to make Hitler Chancellor
  • Feb - Reichstag fire (communists banned and article 48 used by Hitler, censorship and press
  • March - Enabling act. Hitler gains dictatorial powers
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1933!!!!

27
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1933!!!!

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  • Jan - von Papen makes political deal with Hindenburg to make Hitler Chancellor
  • Feb - Reichstag fire (communists banned and article 48 used by Hitler, censorship and press
  • March - Enabling act. Hitler gains dictatorial powers
28
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1934

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30th JUNE - night of the long knives (SA are disbanded and army swear oath of loyalty to Hitler)
- First concentration camps are set up
- Hindenburg dies and Hitler combines the role of president and chancellor and names it “Fuhrer”

29
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1935

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  • Nuremberg laws (jews forbidden to marry germans, lose citizenship)
  • rearmament (Schacht’s “new plan”)
  • signs concordat with Catholic Church
  • The gestapo arrested 700 protestant ministers who opposed the nazis
30
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1938

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  • Krystallnacht
  • women increasingly used as workers
  • 38,000km of autobahns were built by the National Labour Service (RAD)
31
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1939

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  • Jews lose citizenship and have to wear a yellow star an their passports have to have “Israel” or “Sarah” on them
  • rationing introduced throughout germany
  • germany invades poland and ww2 is declared
32
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1941

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  • Nazis create the ‘Final Solution’
  • Cardinal Galen revealed that the nazis were secretely killing mentally and physcially handicapped people
33
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  • Nazis create the ‘Final Solution’
  • Cardinal Galen revealed that the nazis were secretely killing mentally and physcially handicapped people
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1941

34
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July 1944

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Bomb Plot - army officers attempt to assassinate Hitler but fail

35
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Bomb Plot - army officers attempt to assassinate Hitler but fail

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July 1944

36
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1943

WW2

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  • anything not essential to the war effort is ended like sport and non-essential businesses
  • Severe shortage of Labour
  • American air raids destroy German cities
37
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  • anything not essential to the war effort is ended like sport and non-essential businesses
  • Severe shortage of Labour
  • American air raids destroy German cities
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1943

WW2

38
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30th JUNE - night of the long knives (SA are disbanded and army swear oath of loyalty to Hitler)
- First concentration camps are set up
- Hindenburg dies and Hitler combines the role of president and chancellor and names it “Fuhrer”

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1934

39
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  • Jews lose citizenship and have to wear a yellow star an their passports have to have “Israel” or “Sarah” on them
  • rationing introduced throughout germany
  • germany invades poland and ww2 is declared
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1939

40
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1933-1939

propaganda

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1933 Censorship - encourages students to burn over 20,000 books written by jews and communists
1934 Censorship - “Law against Malicious Gossip” forbade the telling of nazi jokes and stories which would receive penalties for doing so.

by 1939 - 7/10 households had a volksempfänger

1934 - over 1500 newspapers were shut down

41
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1933 Censorship - encourages students to burn over 20,000 books written by jews and communists
1934 Censorship - “Law against Malicious Gossip” forbade the telling of nazi jokes and stories which would receive penalties for doing so.

by 1939 - 7/10 households had a volksempfänger

1934 - over 1500 newspapers were shut down

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1934

propaganda