Germany dates

Democracy and dictatorship 1890-1945

Kaiser Wilhelm II become emperor of Germany

1888

Naval laws

1898

first world war begins

1914

Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates

1918

End of first world war

1918

Paris peace conference

January 1919

Spartacists uprising

January 1919

Treaty of Versailles signed

June 1919

Weimar constitution established

August 1919

Nazi party founded

1920

Kapp Putsch

March 1920

Hitler youth founded

1922

Germany falls behind on reparation and the French and Belgian troops invade the Ruhr

1923

Hyperinflation

1923

Stresemann becomes chancellor

August 1923

Munich Putsch

1923

Dawes plan

1924

Mein Kampf released

1924

Hindenburg becomes president

1925

Locarno Pact signed

1925

Germany joins league of nations

1926

Kellogg-Briand pact signed

1928

young plan agreed

1929

Stresemann dies

1929

Wall street crash

1929

Great Depression hits germany

1930

Nazis become biggest party in the Reichstag

1932

Hitler becomes chancellor

1933

Reichstag fire

February 1933

First concentration camp opened

1933

Day long boycott of Jewish shops and businesses

April 1933

Gestapo established

April 1933

Concordat with Catholic church

July 1933

Night of long knives

June 1934

Hindenburg dies

june 1934

Nuremberg laws

1935

Rearmament and conscription introduced

1935

Remilitarisation of the Rhineland

1936

Olympics

1936

Anschluss

March 1938

Hitler takes over the Sudetenland

1938

Kristallnacht

November 1938

Hitler invades Czechoslovakia

March 1939

Nazi soviet pact

August 1939

Germany invades Poland and WW2 begins

September 1939

Germany turns on the USSR

1941

Germany declares a state of Total war

1942

Wannsee conference and final solution

1942

Battle of Berlin

April 1945

Germany surrenders

May 1945