Timeline Flashcards
Start of WW1
1914
Treaty of Versailles signed.
28th June 1919
Prince Max asks for an Armistice.
3rd October 1918
Bavaria attempts to break from Germany and declare itself a republic.
8th November 1918.
Council of People’s Representatives set up.
10th November 1918
KPD Set up
December 1918.
DVP developed from older, national liberal groups.
1919
SPD split to form USPD and SPD.
1917
The Weimar Constitution is passed by the National Assembly.
31st July 1919
Stresemann is chancellor
1923
Marx of Centre Party is Chancellor.
1923-1925
1926-28
Nazis and Communists increase in support in Weimar Republic.
1928
The Wall Street Crash
1929
Hindenburg grudgingly grants Hitler chancellery.
30th January 1933
US joins WW1
October 1917
Reparations fixed to 132,000 million gold marks.
1921
The Revolution from Below starts via naval rebellions.
28th October 1918
End of WW1 and the signing of the armistice by Erzberger.
11th November 1918
First elections of the Weimar Republic.
19 January 1919.
The Sparticist Revolt
January 1919
Social Democrats (SPD) are the largest party in the Reichstag during the Weimar era.
1919-1929.
Ebert elected first President of the Wiemar Republic.
11th February 1919
Economic Recovery from hyperinflation.
1924-1929.
Stresemann is foreign minister.
1923-1929
Support for Extremist parties reduces in Weimar Republic.
May-December 1924
Hindenburg elected President.
1925
Hindenburg and Hitler stand for presidency.
April 1932
Hitler is in complete control of the political system.
August 1934
The Reichstag Fire
27th February 1933
The Enabling Act/ Law for the removal of the Distress of the People and Reich.
24th March 1933
Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
7th April 1933
Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich
30th January 1934
Hitler sets up the People’s Court to try treason.
24th April 1934
President Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Fuhrer and head of the armed forces. Army swear oath to him.
2nd August 1934
Hitler and Hindenburg open new Reichstag together at Potsdam Garrison Church.
21 March 1933.
The Ribbentrop department is set up
1934
Gestapo taken over by Himmler’s SS
1936
Ministerial Council for the Defence of the Reich disbanded.
November 1939
The Decree for the Implementation of Total War Mobilisation
August 1944
USA joins WW2
December 1941
Hitler and his mistress commit suicide.
30th April 1945
Decree for the Protection of the People and the State.
28th February 1933
Lander stripped of their power by Hitler.
31st March 1933
The discussion of laws by the cabinet are no longer needed, just written approval.
20th July 1933
Hitler dissolves the Reichsrat.
14th February 1934
The Night of the Long Knives.
30th June 1934
Hitler is confirmed as Fuhrer by plebiscite.
19 August 1934