Germany Timeline Flashcards

1
Q

Kaiser Wilhelm II fled to Holland

A

9th November 1918

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Weimar government created

A

10th November 1918

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Weimar government signed armistice

A

11th November 1918

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Spartacist Uprising

A

5th January 1919

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Hitler joined German Workers’ Party

A

1919

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Weimar government signed Treaty of Versailles

A

28th June 1919

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Kapp Putsch

A

13th March 1920

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Hitler becomes leader of Nazi Party

A

1921

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Reparations figure set at £6.6 billion

A

1921

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Formation of the SA

A

1921

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

French and Belgian troops invade the Ruhr

A

11th January 1923

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Hyperinflation reaches peak

A

Summer 1923

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Stresemann calls off passive resistance in Ruhr

A

September 1923

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Rentenmark introduced

A

October 1923

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Munich Putsch

A

8th-9th November 1923

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Dawes Plan

A

1924

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

Locarno Treaty

A

1925

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

SS formed

A

1925

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Ebert dies, Hindenburg new German President

A

1925

20
Q

Germany joins League of Nations

A

1926

21
Q

Nazis only gain 2.6% of vote in elections

A

1928

22
Q

Young Plan

A

1929

23
Q

Wall Street Crash

A

October 1929

24
Q

Great Depression in Germany

A

1930-1932

25
Q

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

A

September 1930

26
Q

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

A

1930

27
Q

Unemployment in Germany reached its peak - 6 millon

A

Summer 1930

28
Q

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

A

July 1930

29
Q

Nazis gain 33%, Von Schleicher is appointed Chancellor

A

November 1930

30
Q

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

A

30th January 1933

31
Q

Reichstag Fire. Emergency decrees passed

A

27th January 1933

32
Q

Nazis gain 44% of the vote in elections

A

5th of March 1933

33
Q

Enabling Act passed

A

23rd March 1933

34
Q

Night of Long Knives

A

29th-30th June 1933

35
Q

Hindenburg dies. Army swears oath of loyality to Hitler

A

2rd August 1934

36
Q

Nuremburg laws passed

A

1935

37
Q

Nuremburg rally - big propaganda event, shows off new army

A

1935

38
Q

Hitler introduces conscription

A

18th March 1935

39
Q

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

A

1936

40
Q

Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass).

By this date, less than 25% of boys attended the Hitler Youth

A

9th-10th November 1938

41
Q

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

A

1st September 1939

42
Q

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

A

1942

43
Q

Final Solution - the decision to exterminate Jews

A

1942

44
Q

12 leaders of the Edelweiss Pirates executed in Cologne

A

1944

45
Q

July Bomb Plot to assassinate Hitler

A

1944

46
Q

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

A

1945

47
Q

Hitler committed suicide, Berlin taken by Russian army

A

March 1945