Germany Timeline

Question 1

Kaiser Wilhelm II fled to Holland

Answer 1

9th November 1918

Question 2

Weimar government created

Answer 2

10th November 1918

Question 3

Weimar government signed armistice

Answer 3

11th November 1918

Question 4

Spartacist Uprising

Answer 4

5th January 1919

Question 5

Hitler joined German Workers’ Party

Answer 5

1919

Question 6

Weimar government signed Treaty of Versailles

Answer 6

28th June 1919

Question 7

Kapp Putsch

Answer 7

13th March 1920

Question 8

Hitler becomes leader of Nazi Party

Answer 8

1921

Question 9

Reparations figure set at £6.6 billion

Answer 9

1921

Question 10

Formation of the SA

Answer 10

1921

Question 11

French and Belgian troops invade the Ruhr

Answer 11

11th January 1923

Question 12

Hyperinflation reaches peak

Answer 12

Summer 1923

Question 13

Stresemann calls off passive resistance in Ruhr

Answer 13

September 1923

Question 14

Rentenmark introduced

Answer 14

October 1923

Question 15

Munich Putsch

Answer 15

8th-9th November 1923

Question 16

Dawes Plan

Answer 16

1924

Question 17

Locarno Treaty

Answer 17

1925

Question 18

SS formed

Answer 18

1925

Question 19

Ebert dies, Hindenburg new German President

Answer 19

1925

Question 20

Germany joins League of Nations

Answer 20

1926

Question 21

Nazis only gain 2.6% of vote in elections

Answer 21

1928

Question 22

Young Plan

Answer 22

1929

Question 23

Wall Street Crash

Answer 23

October 1929

Question 24

Great Depression in Germany

Answer 24

1930-1932

Question 25

Social Democrats won the elections. Nazi increased their share of vote to 18% and Communists to 13%

Answer 25

September 1930

Question 26

Chancellor Bruning (leader of the Centre Party) announces the cut of unemployment benefits and increase of taxes. Social Democrats walk out of the Reichstag in protest

Answer 26

1930

Question 27

Unemployment in Germany reached its peak - 6 millon

Answer 27

Summer 1930

Question 28

Nazis gain 37% of the vote, Von Papen is appointed Chancellor

Answer 28

July 1930

Question 29

Nazis gain 33%, Von Schleicher is appointed Chancellor

Answer 29

November 1930

Question 30

Hitler appointed Chancellor in Hindenburg Concordat (agreement of peace by Nazis) with the Church Hitler begins rearming Germany in secret

Answer 30

30th January 1933

Question 31

Reichstag Fire. Emergency decrees passed

Answer 31

27th January 1933

Question 32

Nazis gain 44% of the vote in elections

Answer 32

5th of March 1933

Question 33

Enabling Act passed

Answer 33

23rd March 1933

Question 34

Night of Long Knives

Answer 34

29th-30th June 1933

Question 35

Hindenburg dies. Army swears oath of loyality to Hitler

Answer 35

2rd August 1934

Question 36

Nuremburg laws passed

Answer 36

1935

Question 37

Nuremburg rally - big propaganda event, shows off new army

Answer 37

1935

Question 38

Hitler introduces conscription

Answer 38

18th March 1935

Question 39

By this date, 4 million boys were part of Hitler Youth

Answer 39

1936

Question 40

Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass). | By this date, less than 25% of boys attended the Hitler Youth

Answer 40

9th-10th November 1938

Question 41

Outbreak of World War Two Policy of putting Jews in ghettos All boys required to join Hitler Youth

Answer 41

1st September 1939

Question 42

War starts to go badly for Germany. Bombing of German cities escalates and attempted invasion of USSR drains resources

Answer 42

1942

Question 43

Final Solution - the decision to exterminate Jews

Answer 43

1942

Question 44

12 leaders of the Edelweiss Pirates executed in Cologne

Answer 44

1944

Question 45

July Bomb Plot to assassinate Hitler

Answer 45

1944

Question 46

Sophie Scholl and other leaders of the White Rose group were executed

Answer 46

1945

Question 47

Hitler committed suicide, Berlin taken by Russian army

Answer 47

March 1945