Timeline Flashcards

1
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Start of WW1

A

1914

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2
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Treaty of Versailles signed.

A

28th June 1919

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3
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Prince Max asks for an Armistice.

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3rd October 1918

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4
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Bavaria attempts to break from Germany and declare itself a republic.

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8th November 1918.

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5
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Council of People’s Representatives set up.

A

10th November 1918

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6
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KPD Set up

A

December 1918.

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7
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DVP developed from older, national liberal groups.

A

1919

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8
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SPD split to form USPD and SPD.

A

1917

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9
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The Weimar Constitution is passed by the National Assembly.

A

31st July 1919

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10
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Stresemann is chancellor

A

1923

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11
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Marx of Centre Party is Chancellor.

A

1923-1925

1926-28

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12
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Nazis and Communists increase in support in Weimar Republic.

A

1928

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13
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The Wall Street Crash

A

1929

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14
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Hindenburg grudgingly grants Hitler chancellery.

A

30th January 1933

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15
Q

US joins WW1

A

October 1917

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16
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Reparations fixed to 132,000 million gold marks.

A

1921

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17
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The Revolution from Below starts via naval rebellions.

A

28th October 1918

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18
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End of WW1 and the signing of the armistice by Erzberger.

A

11th November 1918

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19
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First elections of the Weimar Republic.

A

19 January 1919.

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20
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The Sparticist Revolt

A

January 1919

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21
Q

Social Democrats (SPD) are the largest party in the Reichstag during the Weimar era.

A

1919-1929.

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22
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Ebert elected first President of the Wiemar Republic.

A

11th February 1919

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23
Q

Economic Recovery from hyperinflation.

A

1924-1929.

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24
Q

Stresemann is foreign minister.

A

1923-1929

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25
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Support for Extremist parties reduces in Weimar Republic.

A

May-December 1924

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26
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Hindenburg elected President.

A

1925

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27
Q

Hindenburg and Hitler stand for presidency.

A

April 1932

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28
Q

Hitler is in complete control of the political system.

A

August 1934

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29
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The Reichstag Fire

A

27th February 1933

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30
Q

The Enabling Act/ Law for the removal of the Distress of the People and Reich.

A

24th March 1933

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31
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Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service

A

7th April 1933

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32
Q

Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich

A

30th January 1934

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33
Q

Hitler sets up the People’s Court to try treason.

A

24th April 1934

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34
Q

President Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Fuhrer and head of the armed forces. Army swear oath to him.

A

2nd August 1934

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35
Q

Hitler and Hindenburg open new Reichstag together at Potsdam Garrison Church.

A

21 March 1933.

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36
Q

The Ribbentrop department is set up

A

1934

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37
Q

Gestapo taken over by Himmler’s SS

A

1936

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38
Q

Ministerial Council for the Defence of the Reich disbanded.

A

November 1939

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39
Q

The Decree for the Implementation of Total War Mobilisation

A

August 1944

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40
Q

USA joins WW2

A

December 1941

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41
Q

Hitler and his mistress commit suicide.

A

30th April 1945

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42
Q

Decree for the Protection of the People and the State.

A

28th February 1933

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43
Q

Lander stripped of their power by Hitler.

A

31st March 1933

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44
Q

The discussion of laws by the cabinet are no longer needed, just written approval.

A

20th July 1933

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45
Q

Hitler dissolves the Reichsrat.

A

14th February 1934

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46
Q

The Night of the Long Knives.

A

30th June 1934

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47
Q

Hitler is confirmed as Fuhrer by plebiscite.

A

19 August 1934

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48
Q

All political parties are banned except the Nazis, making Germany a one part state.

A

14th July 1933

49
Q

Gestapo set up.

A

26th April 1933

50
Q

Ministerial Council for the Defence of the Reich set up.

A

30th August 1939

51
Q

Gauleiters begin to become increasingly powerful

A

1942

52
Q

Germany invades the USSR in operation Barberossa (WW2)

A

22th June 1941

53
Q

Allies land in Normandy

A

June 1944

54
Q

Germany sign the surrender for WW2

A

7th May 1945

55
Q

Allies hold a conference at Potsdam for the reconstruction of Germany.

A

17 July – 2nd August 1945

56
Q

KPD is re-established in Germany after being banned by Hitler.

A

11th June 1945

57
Q

The CDU and CSU are formed.

A

1945

58
Q

Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland become communist states.

A

1945-1947

59
Q

Marshall Plan Set Up

A

1947

60
Q

FRC announce its constitution; the basic law.

A

23rd May 1949

61
Q

First elections to the Bundestag of the FRG

A

14th August 1949

62
Q

GDR announce its constitution.

A

7th October 1949

63
Q

Ardenauer controls foreign and domestic policy as chancellor and foreign minister.

A

1949-1955

64
Q

Ardenauer manages to make FRG coalitions work.

A

1949-1957

65
Q

Ardenauer makes it harder for smaller parties to gain seats in the Reichstag. X2

A

1953

1957

66
Q

KPD are declared unconstitutional

A

1956

67
Q

Scandalous Bundestag report names 4 ex-nazis in the foreign ministry.

A

1952

68
Q

Political parties reintroduced to Germany after they were banned by Hitler.

A

Early June 1945

69
Q

SPD reintroduced into Germany after being banned by Hitler.

A

15th June 1945

70
Q

Liberal groups join together to create the FDP

A

1947

71
Q

KPD and SPD join together to form a single party; SED

A

April 1946

72
Q

Parliamentary Council set up

A

1st September 1948

73
Q

Basic Law is ratified

A

16-22 May 1949

74
Q

Bundestag first meets in Bonn

A

7th September 1949

75
Q

Ardenauer is chancellor.

A

1949-1963

76
Q

CDU/CSU are majority in the bundestag

A

1949-1968

77
Q

Ardenauer sets out his agenda in the bundestag.

A

20th April 1949

78
Q

SRP are banned by Ardenauer.

A

1952

79
Q

Article 131 added to basic law , allowing Nazis to work in the civil service.

A

11th May 1951

80
Q

BHE wins enough seat to be part of a coalition government.

A

1953

81
Q

FRG begins to establish its own army.

A

1955

82
Q

The supreme court rules a government-controlled tv station is unconstitutional.

A

28th February 1961

83
Q

Erhard is chancellor.

A

1963-1966

84
Q

Erhard tries to introduce a budget which includes heavy taxation.

A

1966

85
Q

Government is an SPD/FDP alliance

A

1969-1982

86
Q

Several significant FDP members join the CDU

A

October 1970

87
Q

Brandt calls an early election.

A

November 1972

88
Q

Brandt resigns

A

24th May 1974

89
Q

Constructive vote of no confidence forces Schmidt to resign.

A

1st October 1982

90
Q

Kohl calls early elections

A

6th March 1983

91
Q

US airbase in Rein Mein and Frankfurt airport are bombed by terrorists.

A

1985

92
Q

East Germany relaxes travel restrictions and Austria abolishes visa requirements.

A

1st January 1989

93
Q

FRG announces the lifting of travel restrictions.

A

9th November 1989

94
Q

Ardenauer tries to set up a government-controlled tv station.

A

January 1961

95
Q

Der Spiegel publishes an article criticising the performance of German troops in NATO exercise, leading to the journalists arrest.

A

October 1962

96
Q

Kiesenger is chancellor.

A

1966-1969

97
Q

SPD and CSU vote to introduce an emergency law.

A

28th June 1968

98
Q

Brandt becomes chancellor.

A

1969

99
Q

Several SPD members join the CDU

A

March 1952

100
Q

One of Brandt’s advisers is discovered to be a GDR spy

A

1974

101
Q

Helmut Schmidt wins elections due to no viable CDU candidate.

A

1976 and 1980

102
Q

The Green Part is set up.

A

July 1978

103
Q

The republicans set up.

A

1983

104
Q

Hungary opens up boarders to the west and relaxes travel restrictions.

A

1989

105
Q

Hungary allows East Germans to cross any boarder.

A

September 1989

106
Q

Dawes plan

A

1924

107
Q

Young Plan

A

1929

108
Q

Sparticists, members of USPD and local union officials unite to overthrow the government, taking over key buildings.

A

6th January 1919

109
Q

Individuals attempt to take over Thuringaria

A

1921

110
Q

Munich Putsch

A

8th November 1923

111
Q

Leaders of Red Shock Troop arrested.

A

December 1933

112
Q

Members of the Anti-Fascist Worker’s group arrested.

A

1944

113
Q

Von Dohnanyi and Bonhoeffer arrested and sent to concentration camps.

A

1943

114
Q

The Nazi 25 point programme

A

1920

115
Q

Nazis imprison bishops Meiser and Wurm

A

October 1934

116
Q

CDU become the largest party in the Bundestag.

A

August 1949

117
Q

Viva Maria is released.

A

December 1965

118
Q

Police shoot student Benno Ohnesorg during demonstrations over human rights in Iran.

A

1967

119
Q

The last major demonstration against the emergency law.

A

11th May 1968