Weimar's early years of crisis 1919-24 Flashcards
April-May 1919
‘Red Bavaria’: crushed by Freikorps.
June 28th 1919
Treaty of Versailles signed.
March 1920
Kapp putsch.
May 5th 1921
Allies fixed reparations at £6600 million (132 billion gold marks).
August 26th 1921
Murder of Erzberger.
June 24th 1922
Murder of Rathenau.
January 11th 1923
Franco-Belgian occupation of the Ruhr (not ended until 1925).
January 13th 1923
Passive resistance proclaimed by the German government.
January-November 1923
Period of hyperinflation.
August 12th 1923
Stresemann made chancellor of Germany; state of emergency declared.
August-November 1923
Stresemann’s 100 days.
Autumn 1923
The ‘German October’ in Saxony: overthrown by army.
November 9th 1923
Munich Beer Hall putsch.
November 15th 1923
Introduction of Rentenmark.
April 1924
Dawes Plan proposed and accepted.
