key dates

Question 1

armistice was signed (november criminals)

Answer 1

11 november 1918

Question 2

weimar republic formed

Answer 2

january 1919

Question 3

treaty of versailles

Answer 3

28th june 1919

Question 4

hitler becomes nazi leader

Answer 4

1921

Question 5

germany fails to make its reparation payments, french invade the ruhr, hyperinflation and the munich putsch.

Answer 5

1923

Question 6

1924-1929

Answer 6

stresseman becomes foreign secretary, works with britain, france and america to improve germany’s economic situation. dawes plan came into effect in september 1924.

Question 7

wall street crash

Answer 7

1929

Question 8

political manoeuvring between von papen and von schleicher – divisions help hitler and the nazi party.

Answer 8

1931-2

Question 9

nazi’s become popular - promises of ‘work and bread’

Answer 9

1932

Question 10

hitler becomes chancellor

Answer 10

1933

Question 11

reichstag fire

Answer 11

february 27th 1933

Question 12

enabling act - ban on trade unions, political parties and press control.

Answer 12

march 23rd 1933

Question 13

june 1934

Answer 13

night of the long knives

Question 14

hitler becomes fuhrer

Answer 14

august 1934

Question 15

creation of the national labour service.

Answer 15

1935

Question 16

creation of the ‘strength through joy’ programme.

Answer 16

1935

Question 17

nuremburg laws and jewish opposition

Answer 17

1933-1939

Question 18

kristallnacht

Answer 18

november 1938

Question 19

national reich church set up to nazify the protestant church.

Answer 19

1933

Question 20

hitler withdraws germany from the league of nations.

Answer 20

october 1933

Question 21

re-militarise the rhineland with no opposition

Answer 21

1936

Question 22

anschluss with austria

Answer 22

1938

Question 23

the sudetenland crisis

Answer 23

1938

Question 24

hitler takes over czechoslovakia

Answer 24

1939

Question 25

pact of steel between germany and russia

Answer 25

1939