Rise of the Nazis - Dates

Question 1

German Worker’s Party (NSDAP) founded by Anton Drexler

Answer 1

January 1919

Question 2

Twenty-Five Points Programme published (outlines Nazi ideology)

Answer 2

February 1920

Question 3

NSDAP publishes the ‘Volkischer Beobachter’ (People’s Observer)

Answer 3

February 1920

Question 4

Hitler becomes chairman of the NSDAP

Answer 4

July 1921

Question 5

Munich Putsch (leads to HiItler’s imprisonment)

Answer 5

November 1923

Question 6

NSDAP conference at Bamberg (establishes Fuhrerprinzip)

Answer 6

February 1926

Question 7

Wall Street Crash

Answer 7

October 1929

Question 8

Bruning’s Chancellorship

Answer 8

1930-32

Question 9

NSDAP vote increases in elections for the Reichstag

Answer 9

September 1930

Question 10

Hindenburg beats Hitler in presidential election

Answer 10

March 1932

Question 11

Bruning forced to resign as Chancellor and is replaced by Franz von Papen

Answer 11

May 1932

Question 12

NSDAP become the largest party in Reichstag elections

Answer 12

July 1932

Question 13

von Papen resigns as Chancellor to be replaced by von Schleicher

Answer 13

November 1932

Question 14

Hitler appointed as Chancellor

Answer 14

January 1933

Question 15

Reichstag Fire; the Decree for the Protection of the People and State

Answer 15

February 27/28 1933

Question 16

NSDAP largest party in the Reichstag elections but fails to win a majority

Answer 16

March 1933

Question 17

Enabling Act passed by the Reichstag (destroys the constitution)

Answer 17

23 March 1933

Question 18

Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service

Answer 18

April 1933

Question 19

Trade Unions banned and the German Labour Front (DAF) created

Answer 19

2 May 1933 (day after May Day celebrations)

Question 20

All political parties expect the NSDAP banned

Answer 20

14 July 1933

Question 21

Concordat between Catholic Church and State

Answer 21

July 1933

Question 22

French and Belgium troops take of the Ruhr (after Germany refuses to pay reparations from TofV)

Answer 22

11 January 1923

Question 23

French officer shot in the Ruhr (led to many Germans killed by the French)

Answer 23

10 March 1923

Question 24

German Government said it could no longer pay Reparations

Answer 24

December 1922

Question 25

Bamberg Conference (Fuhrerprinzip created)

Answer 25

February 1926

Question 26

First Volume of Mein Kampf published

Answer 26

1925

Question 27

Htiler re-launches the party

Answer 27

27 February 1925

Question 28

Goebbels appointed Gauleiter of Berlin

Answer 28

1926

Question 29

Goebbels appointed propaganda chief

Answer 29

1928

Question 30

Hitler Youth founded

Answer 30

1926

Question 31

von Papen’s Prussian coup d’état

Answer 31

20 July 1932

Question 32

Sports Palace Speech in Berlin

Answer 32

10 February 1933

Question 33

Himmler sets up Dachau

Answer 33

22 March 1933

Question 34

Potsdam Day

Answer 34

21 March 1933

Question 35

All state governments dissolved by Frick (Minister of the Interior)

Answer 35

31 March 1933

Question 36

‘Law to Ensure the Unity of Party and State’ passed (initial phases of Gleichschaltung)

Answer 36

1 December 1933