History GCSE Key dates and events

armistice day

11 nov 1918

german revolution

1918-1919

spartacist revolt

january 1919

first elections for weimar national assembly

january 1919

signing of treaty of versailles

28 june 1919

completion of the weimar constitution

august 1919

communist 'red rising' in the ruhr

1920

kapp putsch

march 1920

munich putsch

november 1923

german marks become worthless

november 1923

stresemann's '100 days' as chancellor

1923

introduction of the rentenmark

november 1923

publication of the dawes plan

1924

publication of the young plan

1929

death of stresemann

october 1929

establishment of the reichsbank and the reichsmark, replacing the rentenmark

1924

wall street crash

1929

german economic crash

1931

locarno pact

1925

creation of the league of nations

1920

germany joins the league of nations

1926

hitler joins the DAP

1919

hitler made leader of the NSDAP

1921

NSDAP grows to 20,000 members

1923

decrease of nazi seats in the reichstag from 32 to 12

1924-1928

growth of the SA to 400,000 members

1930

hitler's imprisonment for 9 months

1924

publication of mein kampf

1925

creation of the 25-point plan

1920

unemployment rises from 650,000 to 6,100,000

1928-1933

nazi reichstag seats rise from 12 to 288

1928-1933

appointment of hitler as chancellor

january 1933

reichstag fire

february 1933

enabling act passed

march 1933

night of the long knives

30 june 1933

death of hindenburg, making hitler the official head of state

2 august 1933

hitler declares himself führer

1934

ss (schutzstaffel) numbers 200,000 members

1935

over 600,000 in prisons or concentration camps

1939

concordat signed with the church, stating that german catholic church would be protected if staying away from politics

1933

reich church established under bishop muller

1933

confessional church established by bishop niemoller

1934

69% of newspapers directly owned by nazis

1939

book-burning events popularized as part of nazi propaganda

1933

degenerate and great german art exhibitions

1937

reich music chamber created

1933

berlin olympics

1936

edelweiss pirates founded

1936

white rose group founded

1943

july bomb plot as part of operation valkyrie

1944

kreisau circle members arrested and executed

1944

new plan established by schacht (finance minister)

1933

four-year plan established by goering, replacing schacht as finance minister

1936

german labor front (DAF) established

1933

strength through joy (KdF) membership reaches 30 million

1936

hitler designs the volkswagen (people's car)

1935

beauty of labor (SdA) established to improve workplace conditions

1934

national labor service (RAD) becomes compulsory for all men aged 18-25

1935

german army expansion publicized, with 2,500 war planes in the luftwaffe and 300,000 soldiers in the wehrmacht

1935

law for the encouragement of marriage introduced

1933

mother's cross introduced

1939

women in employment increase by 2.4 million

1933-1939

hitler youth (hitlerjugend, HJ) founded

1926

hitler youth made compulsory for children aged 10-17

1936

jewish civil servants/teachers sacked

1933

nuremberg laws introduced

1935

kristallnacht

1938

decree on the exclusion of jews from german economic life

1938

sterilization law against mentally and physically disabled people

1933

decree for combating the gypsy plague

1938

blitzkrieg

april-june 1940

bombing of pearl harbor

1941

VE day

May 8 1945

atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki

9 august 1945

VJ day

August 15, 1945

waffen SS sets up HJ divison for 16-17 year olds

1943

kristallnacht

1938

aktion t-4 (euthanasia program)

during wwii

the final solution

1942