Hisotry dates

this is for gcse history nazi germany topic

1918 9th November

Kaiser abdicates and feels to Holland

1918 10th November

New public set up, Fredrick Ebert becomes leader

1918 11th November

Armistice signed and WW1 ends

1919 19th January

First elections for the Weimar Republic

1919 28th June

Treaty of Versailles signed

1919 5-12th January

Spartacist Uprising

1919 31st July

New constitution approved by the National Assembly

1920 13th March

Kapp Putsch

1922 December

Germany misses another reparations payment

1923 January

French occupation of the Ruhr

1923 13th August

Gustav Stresemann becomes chancellor

1923 November

Rentenmark introduced

1923 end of November

Stresemann resigns as chancellor - becomes foreign minister

1924 August

• Reichsbank gets control of the Rentenmark

• Reichsmark introduced as new permanent currency

1924 September

Dawes Plan agreed

1925 1st December

Locarno pact signed

1926 September

Germany joins League of Nations

1928 August

Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed

1929 August

Young Plan is signed

1925-1929

'Locarno honeymoon'

1919 January

German Workers' Party set up by Anton Drexler

1919 September

Hitler joins the German Worker's Party

1920 February

Hitler becomes leader of propaganda

1920 end

Membership of National Socialist German Workers' Party increases to 1,000 members

1921 July 29th

Hitler becomes leader of NSDAP

1921

Hitler sets up the SA (Stormtroopers) - leader of SA is Ernst Röhm

1923 8th November

Munich Putsch

• Hitler and his SA supporters from beer hall

• Hitler forces Kahr and Lossow to support his plan to install General Ludendorff as Germanys new leader ->used intimidation

• Lossow and Kahr swore loyalty to the Putsch and left beer hall

1923 9th November

Munich Putsch

• President Ebert declares a state of emergency and orders Lossow to shut it down

• Lossow and Kahr declare opposition to the Putsch

• General Ludendorff believes the soldiers would give them support -> encouraged Hitler not to give up

1923 9th November midday

Munich Putsch

• 2,000 Nazis and their supporters march into Munich aiming to take over vital buildings

• Armed police and soldiers confronts the Nazis

• Fire was exchanged -> 14 Nazis were killed

1923 11th November

Hitler gets arrested and awaits trial

1924 February

Hitler and some other Nazi leaders are put on trial

1925 February

Ban on Nazi party is lifted

1925

Mein Kampf published

1929 October

Wall Street Crash

1932 July

Nazis become largest single party (37.4% - 230 seats)

1933 30th January

Hitler becomes chancellor

1933 27th February

Reichstag Fire

1933 28th February

Hindenburg uses Article 48 after Reichstag fire

1933 5th March

Nazis won 44% of the votes

1933 24th March

Enabling Act

1934 30th June

Night of the Long Knives

1934 2nd August

Hindenburg dies and Hitler becomes Frührer

1933 5th March

Hitler called an election for a new Reichstag after the Reichstag fire. Nazis gained 44% of the seats (288 seats)

1935 September

Nuremberg Laws introduced

1935 9-10th November

Kristallnacht

1933

Sterilisation Law introduced

1935

Intermarriage ban between gypsies, black people with the Aryan race

1941 June

Operation Barbarossa - Germany invaded the Soviet Union

• thousands more Jews can under Nazi control -> death squads

1942 January

Wannsee Conference - 'Final Solution' - systematic killings of all Jews in German territories - decided to convert some concentration camps to extermination camps

1939 August

Rationing began in Germany

1941

Russian prisoners of war sent to Germany to work as slave labour

1942

Allied bombing became major frequent - mass evacuation began

1943 January

All men aged 16-65 and women 17-45 had to register as available for work

1944 20th July

July bomb plot

1945 30th April

Hitler commits suicide

1945 7th May

Admiral Doenitz surrenders to the Allies - Third Reich comes to an end