Germany

1888

Wilhelm II becomes Kaiser (Emperor) of Germany

1898

First Naval Laws: 7 battleships

1914

Start of WWI

1918

Kaiser abdicates; WWI ends; Armistice signed

1919 (Jan. Conference)

Paris Peace Conference (where Treaty of Versailles is decided)

1919 (Jan. Uprising)

Spartacist Uprising: left-wing

1919 (June)

Treaty of Versailles signed

1919 (Aug.)

Weimar Constitution established

1920 (Feb.)

Nazi Party founded (Anton Drexler)

1920 (Mar.)

Kapp Putsch (right-wing)

1922

Hitler Youth is founded

1923 (Jan.)

Invasion of the Ruhr

1923 (Aug.)

Stresemann becomes Chancellor

1923 (Nov.)

Munich Putsch

1924 (Aug.)

Dawes Plan (US loans) + Stresemann becomes Foreign Minister

1924 (Dec.)

Hitler is released + Mein Kampf is already published

1925 (Feb.)

Hindenburg becomes President

1925 (Oct.)

Locarno Pact (not invading between Poland, Germany, France, Belgium, Britain, and Italy)

1926 (Feb.)

Bamberg Conference (internal dispute)

1926 (Oct.)

Germany joins League of Nations

1928 (Aug.)

Kellogg-Briand Pact (resolve international disputes peacefully; 62 countries)

1929 (Aug.)

Young Plan (reduced reparations to £2000 million)

1929 (Oct.)

Stresemann dies + Wall Street Crash (leading to Great Depression)

1932

Nazi Party is largest in Reichstag (230 seats)

1933 (Jan.)

Hitler becomes Chancellor

1933 (Feb.)

Reichstag Fire

1933 (Mar.)

Enabling Act + Dachau Concentration opened

1933 (Apr.)

Boycott of Jewish businesses + Gestapo established

1933 (July)

Concordat with Catholic Church

1934 (June)

Night of the Long Knives

1934 (Aug.)

Hindenburg dies + Hitler becomes Fuhrer

1935

Nuremburg Laws + armament and conscription reintroduced

1936

Rhineland remilitarised + Berlin Olympics

1938 (Mar.)

Anschluss

1938 (Sep.)

Hitler annexes Sudetenland

1938 (Nov.)

Kristallnacht

1939 (Mar.)

Hitler invades the rest of Czechoslovakia (allowed due to Munich Agreement)

1939 (Aug.)

Nazi-Soviet Pact

1939 (Sep.)

Hitler invades Poland, triggering WWII

1941

Germany invades Soviet Union; declares ‘State of Total War’

1942

Wannsee Conference + Final Solution

1945 (Apr.)

Battle of Berlin + Hitler commits suicide

1945 (May)

Germany surrenders