Weimar Germany - key dates

9th November 1918

Kaiser fled

10th November 1918

‘Republic’ - Ebert

11 November 1918

Armistice (stab in the back) signed by Ebert

November 1918

council of people’s representatives - Ebert in charge - temporary

19th January 1919

voting → Ebert chancellor (voted in)

1919 (three points - general)

• Weimar republic + consitution

• SDP in power

• democracy

5th January 1919

Sparticist uprising began

15th January 1919

Rosa Luxemburg killed

• sparticists

• extreme left wing

June 1919

Treaty of versailles

March 1920

Kapp Putsch

• Wolfganag Kapp

• Freikorps

• Extreme right wing

6th June 1920

elections → showed less support for moderate political parties

1923 (crisis year - three things)

crisis year:

• invasion of the Ruhr Valley → France occupied Germany and took industrial products as Germany could not pay them back

• hyper inflation → they printed more money to pay striking workers and cover costs making the value of the mark very low causing hyperinflation

• Beer Hallputsch

November 1923

Rentenmark introduced by Stresemann

1924 (plan)

Dawes plan

1929 (plan)

Young plan

1925 (pact - Stresemann to improve international relations)

The Lorcano pact

1926 (Stresemann to improve international relations)

League of Nations

1928 (pact - Stresemann to improve international relations)

Kellog-Brian pact

1929 (early october)

Stresemann dies (2 weeks before crash)

1929 (later October)

Great Depression