Important Dates Flashcards
World War 1 Armistice (agreement made to stop fighting)
1918 November 11th
Spartacist Revolt
1919 January 5th-12th
Weimar Republic Established
1919 February
Signing of the Treaty Of Versailles
1919 June 28th
Kapp Putsch
1920 March 13th-17th
Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr
1923 January 11th
Gustav Stresemann becomes Chancellor
1923 August 13th
Munich Beer Hall Putsch
1923 November 8th
Stresemann’s government collapses
1923 November 23rd
German hyperinflation peaks
1923 December
Dawes Plan comes into effect
1924 September
Hitler gets Chancellorship
1933 January
Reichstag fire
1933 February 27th
Enabling acts makes Hitler dictator
1933 March 23rd
Boycott of Jewish owned businesses and of Jewish professionals begins
1933 April 1st
Trade Unions banned in Germany
1933 May
Political parties (other than the Nazis) were banned
1933 July
Beginning of the Night of the Long Knives
1934 June 30th
Nuremberg Laws (marriage banned between Jews and non-Jews, and Jews banneed from German citizenship)
1935 September 15th
Berlin Olympics
1936 August
Kristallnacht
1938 November 9th-10th
Invasion of Poland- marks the outbreak of WW2
1939 September 1st
The Nazi’s begin the ‘Final Solution’
1942
Attempted assassination of Hitler by the Stauffenberg Plot
1944 July 20th
Hitler commits suicide
1945 April 30th
Final surrender of German Army
1945 May 7th
Wall Street Crash
1929 October
