Timeline

Question 1

Abdication of the Kaiser

Answer 1

1918- Kaiser Wilhelm II leaves Germany for the Netherlands

Question 2

Spartacist Uprising

Answer 2

1919- Karl Liebnecht and Rosa Luxemburg held an uprising in Berlin. The Freikorps suppress the rebellion.

Question 3

Treaty of Versailles signed

Answer 3

1919- Germany signs the peace treaty that ends WW1.

Question 4

Weimar Constitution signed

Answer 4

1919. Signed to introduce much greater democracy in Germany.

Question 5

Kapp Putsch

Answer 5

1920. A revolt in Berlin led by Wolfgang Kapp supported by the Freikorps who wanted to create a new right wing government.

Question 6

Occupation of the Ruhr

Answer 6

1923. French and Belgian troops occupy the Ruhr industrial region as Germany had stopped paying reparations.

Question 7

Hyperinflation begins

Answer 7

1923. Prices rise rapidly made worse by the printing of money to pay striking workers in the Ruhr.

Question 8

Stresemann becomes Chancellor and Foreign Minister

Answer 8

1923.

Question 9

Munich Putsch

Answer 9

1923. Failed attempt led by the Nazis to overthrow the government of the Weimar Republic.

Question 10

Dawes Plan

Answer 10

1924. Agreement helps Germany with its reparations.

Question 11

Mein Kampf published

Answer 11

1925. Hitler’s book is published with his ideas for Germany “My Struggle”

Question 12

The Locarno Pact

Answer 12

1925. Germany agrees to the border set out in the Treaty of Versailles.

Question 13

The Bamberg Conference

Answer 13

1926. Hitler meets with leading Nazis to reorganise the party and cement his authority.

Question 14

Germany joins League of Nations

Answer 14

1926. Germany is admitted to the League of Nations as prohibited under the Treaty of Versailles.

Question 15

Kellogg-Briand Pact agreed

Answer 15

1928. Binds nations into an agreement not to use war as a method of solving disputes.

Question 16

Young Plan agreed

Answer 16

1929. Significantly reduces German reparations and gives Germany longer to pay them.

Question 17

Stresemann dies

Answer 17

1929. Dies of a stroke.

Question 18

Wall Street Crash

Answer 18

1929. US stock market crashes triggering events that lead to the Great Depression in the 1930s.

Question 19

Nazis are the largest party in the Reichstag.

Answer 19

1932. Nazis win 230 seats in the Reichstag election making them the largest party.

Question 20

Hitler appointed Chancellor

Answer 20

1933. Hitler appointed Chancellor by Hindenburg.

Question 21

Reichstag Fire

Answer 21

1933. Dutch communist Van der Lube is arrested and executed for starting the fire.

Question 22

Enabling Act

Answer 22

1933. Gives Hitler complete authority in Germany.

Question 23

Boycott of Jewish shops and buisnesses

Answer 23

1933. Nazis organise a boycott. The SA are used to intimidate customers.

Question 24

Gestapo established

Answer 24

1933. Secret police of Germany is created by Hermann Goring.

Question 25

Concordat with the Catholic Church

Answer 25

1933. Nazis and Catholic Church sign an agreement to leave each other alone.

Question 26

Night of the Long Knives

Answer 26

1934. Hitler removes opposition of the Nazi party. Victims include Ernst Rohm and other leading Nazis.

Question 27

Hindenburg dies

Answer 27

1934. Hindenburg dies of lung cancer and Hitler declares himself Fuhrer.

Question 28

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 28

1935. Laws which restrict freedoms for Jews and seek to define a Jew.

Question 29

Berlin Olympics

Answer 29

1936. Berlin stages the Olympic Games which become a propaganda tool. Hitler is embarrassed when US athlete Jesse Owens wins gold.

Question 30

Kristallnacht

Answer 30

1938. A night of violence across Germany against Jews. SS members riot and destroy synagogues and Jewish businesses.

Question 31

Second World War begins

Answer 31

1939.