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
All political parties are banned except the Nazis, making Germany a one part state.
14th July 1933
Gestapo set up.
26th April 1933
Ministerial Council for the Defence of the Reich set up.
30th August 1939
Gauleiters begin to become increasingly powerful
1942
Germany invades the USSR in operation Barberossa (WW2)
22th June 1941
Allies land in Normandy
June 1944
Germany sign the surrender for WW2
7th May 1945
Allies hold a conference at Potsdam for the reconstruction of Germany.
17 July – 2nd August 1945
KPD is re-established in Germany after being banned by Hitler.
11th June 1945
The CDU and CSU are formed.
1945
Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland become communist states.
1945-1947
Marshall Plan Set Up
1947
FRC announce its constitution; the basic law.
23rd May 1949
First elections to the Bundestag of the FRG
14th August 1949
GDR announce its constitution.
7th October 1949
Ardenauer controls foreign and domestic policy as chancellor and foreign minister.
1949-1955
Ardenauer manages to make FRG coalitions work.
1949-1957
Ardenauer makes it harder for smaller parties to gain seats in the Reichstag. X2
1953
1957
KPD are declared unconstitutional
1956
Scandalous Bundestag report names 4 ex-nazis in the foreign ministry.
1952
Political parties reintroduced to Germany after they were banned by Hitler.
Early June 1945
SPD reintroduced into Germany after being banned by Hitler.
15th June 1945
Liberal groups join together to create the FDP
1947
KPD and SPD join together to form a single party; SED
April 1946
Parliamentary Council set up
1st September 1948
Basic Law is ratified
16-22 May 1949
Bundestag first meets in Bonn
7th September 1949
Ardenauer is chancellor.
1949-1963
CDU/CSU are majority in the bundestag
1949-1968
Ardenauer sets out his agenda in the bundestag.
20th April 1949
SRP are banned by Ardenauer.
1952
Article 131 added to basic law , allowing Nazis to work in the civil service.
11th May 1951
BHE wins enough seat to be part of a coalition government.
1953
FRG begins to establish its own army.
1955
The supreme court rules a government-controlled tv station is unconstitutional.
28th February 1961
Erhard is chancellor.
1963-1966
Erhard tries to introduce a budget which includes heavy taxation.
1966
Government is an SPD/FDP alliance
1969-1982
Several significant FDP members join the CDU
October 1970
Brandt calls an early election.
November 1972
Brandt resigns
24th May 1974
Constructive vote of no confidence forces Schmidt to resign.
1st October 1982
Kohl calls early elections
6th March 1983
US airbase in Rein Mein and Frankfurt airport are bombed by terrorists.
1985
East Germany relaxes travel restrictions and Austria abolishes visa requirements.
1st January 1989
FRG announces the lifting of travel restrictions.
9th November 1989
Ardenauer tries to set up a government-controlled tv station.
January 1961
Der Spiegel publishes an article criticising the performance of German troops in NATO exercise, leading to the journalists arrest.
October 1962
Kiesenger is chancellor.
1966-1969
SPD and CSU vote to introduce an emergency law.
28th June 1968
Brandt becomes chancellor.
1969
Several SPD members join the CDU
March 1952
One of Brandt’s advisers is discovered to be a GDR spy
1974
Helmut Schmidt wins elections due to no viable CDU candidate.
1976 and 1980
The Green Part is set up.
July 1978
The republicans set up.
1983
Hungary opens up boarders to the west and relaxes travel restrictions.
1989
Hungary allows East Germans to cross any boarder.
September 1989
Dawes plan
1924
Young Plan
1929
Sparticists, members of USPD and local union officials unite to overthrow the government, taking over key buildings.
6th January 1919
Individuals attempt to take over Thuringaria
1921
Munich Putsch
8th November 1923
Leaders of Red Shock Troop arrested.
December 1933
Members of the Anti-Fascist Worker’s group arrested.
1944
Von Dohnanyi and Bonhoeffer arrested and sent to concentration camps.
1943
The Nazi 25 point programme
1920
Nazis imprison bishops Meiser and Wurm
October 1934
CDU become the largest party in the Bundestag.
August 1949
Viva Maria is released.
December 1965
Police shoot student Benno Ohnesorg during demonstrations over human rights in Iran.
1967
The last major demonstration against the emergency law.
11th May 1968
