Hitler - most important dates

Rise to Power - yellow, Consolidation of Power - red, Domestic Policies - green, Foreign Policies - blue

The November Revolution

The November Revolution

9 November 1918

The DAP is founded, one year later it becomes NSDAP

5 January 1919

The Treaty of Versailles (lost 13% territory and 10% population, army limited to 100k, banned from having air force, restricted to have 6 battleships, 132 marks reparations)

28 June 1919

Kapp Putsch

13 March 1920

Adolf Hitler elected party chairman of NSDAP

28 July 1921

Beer-Hall Putsch

8 November 1923

Mein Kampf (while in prison for 9 months)

1923/24

The Dawes Plan

August 1924

Hitler officially relaunches the NSDAP after the ban on the party is lifted on 16 February

27 February 1925

German joins League of Nations

September 1926

NSDAP gains only 2.6% of the vote, giving them 12 seats in the Reichstag in German Federal Elections

May 1928

The Young Plan

31 August 1929

The Nazi Party gains 18.3% of the vote in the Reichstag elections, winning 6 million votes and increasing their seats in the Reichstag from 12 to 107 - Federal Election

September 1930

Hitler losses at Presidential Elections against Hidenburg (he won 30% in first round and 36% in the second)

March 1932

In the German Federal Elections, the Nazi party gains 37% of the vote, becoming the largest party with 230 seats

31 July 1932

6 November - In the German Federal Elections, the Nazi vote drops to 33% and 196

November 1932

Von Papen and Hitler meet to discuss ways in which to oust Chancellor Schleicher. It was agreed to persuade the President to appoint Hitler as Chancellor, believing he could be controlled by them.

January 1933

Hitler is appointed Chancellor

30 January 1933

Reichstag Fire

27 February 1933

In the Federal Elections the Nazis win 43.9% of the vote and 288/647 seats, continuing as the largest party in the Reichstag, yet falling short of the 324 seats needed for a majority

5 March 1933

The Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda is created

13 March 1933

Enabling Laws

23 March 1933

The Law for the Re-establishment of the Civil Service

April 1933

The German Labor Front is created. It replaced all other independent unions. Membership of the DAF was made a mandatory duty

2 May 1933

first of many public burnings is overseen in Berlin by Joseph Goebbels, as non-German literature was destroyed

10 May 1933

The Concordat

July 1933

The Reich Church is created

September 1933

Germany withdraws from League of Nations and the World Disarmament Conference at Geneva

23 October 1933

Non-Agression Pact with Poland

26 January 1934

Night of the Long Knives

30 June 1934

Hitler publicly announces German rearmament, reintroducing conscription for over 500,000 men and revealing the existence of the Luftwaffe

16 March 1935

Propaganda film Triumph of the Will is released. Directed by Leni Riefenstahl, it chronicled the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, attended by over 700,000 supporters.

28 March 1935

The Anglo-German Naval Agreement

18 June 1935

Nuremberg Laws

15 September 1935

Remilitarization of Rhineland

7 March 1936

Summer Olympics in Berlin

August 1936

The Four Year Plan

1 September 1936

Rome-Berlin Axis

October 1936

Anti-comintern Pact

November 1936

The Degenerate Art Exhibition ( s held in Munich showcasing over 650 works of art that had been confiscated for its modernism that the NSDAP felt was anti-German)

July 1937

Anschluss of Austria

12/13 March 1938

Sudetenland Crisis

May 1938

The Munich Confrence

September 1938

Kristallnacht

9/10 November 1938

Hitler invades the rest of Czechoslovakia

15 March 1939

Pact of Steel

May 1939

The Nazi-Soviet Pact

24 August 1939

Tripartite Pact

27 September 1940