germany dates

oct 1918

german soldiers at keil mutinied + refused to attack british naval forces (soldiers + workers councils established across germany')

9 nov 1918

kaiser abdicates + new republic under ebert

11 nov 1918

armistice signed

jan 1919

weimar constitution set up

jan 1919

spartacist uprising (luxemborg + liebknecht)

STOPPED BY FRIEKORPS

march 1920

kapp putsch

jan 1923

french occupy ruhr

1924

dawes plan:

• loans from US to boost economy

1929

young plan:

• reduced reparations

1925 streseman

locarno pact

• respect borders

1926 streseman

league of nations

1928 streseman

kellogg-briand pact

• agreement to solve international disputes peacefully

8-11 nov 1923

munich putsch

feb 1925

lifted ban on nazi party

1923-1929

1932

nazis unsuccessful at winning reichstag seats

nazis=biggest party

1929!

WALL STREET CRASH

30 jan 1933

hitler=chancellor

27 feb 1933

Reichstag fire

24 march 1933

enabling act

• local governments controlled by nazis (all other governments abolished 1934)

• broke into trade union offices + arrested leaders

30 june 1934

night of long knives

2 aug 1934

hitler=fuhrer

Y

1926

1939

hitler youth formed

compulsory involvement in hitler youth

W 1933

law for encouragement of marriage

mothers cross

C

1933

1934

1937

concordat

confessional church

niemoller + clergy concentration camps

J

sep 1935

nov 1938

by 1942

nuremburg laws

kristellnacht

genocide decision

• jan 1942: final solution (ghettoisation + sent to conc camps)

aug 1939

rationing

march-july 1943

allied bombing

20 july 1944

bomb plot

1942 (opposition)

white rose

• sophie + hans scholl uni student

1937 (opposition)

edelweiss pirates

• bullied hitler youth