Key Dates: Topics 1-3

Kaiser abdication

9th Nov. 1918

Armistice

11th Nov. 1918

German Communist Party (KPD) formed

End of Dec. 1918 after spartacist demonstrations

Spartacist Uprising

6th Jan. 1919

March 1919

Further communist uprising

Treaty of Versaille

June 1919

Chancellor Scheidman resigned

19th June 1919 due to ToV

Measures to reduce army and disband Freikorps announced

March 1920 led to Kapp Putsch

Murders 1919-1922

376

French and Belgium occupation of the Ruhr

Jan. 1923

Rentenmark Introduced

1923

Dawes Plan

1924: new plan to pay reparations

Young Plan

1929: Reparations reduced and length of time increased

Locarno Pact

1925: Britain, France, Belgium and Italy w/ germany vowing to keep bonds

League of Nations

1926: Permanent seat on council, Germany on world stage

Kellogg-Briand Pact

1928: Only use armies for self-defence and solve conflict through peaceful means

Unemployment Insurance Act

1927: 3% of workers wages which could provide 60 rentenmarks a week if a worker became sick/unemployed

Reich Pension Law

1920: Pensions to war veterans, war widows, parents of dead servicemen.

General Hindenburg elected President

1925

Munich Putsch

9th Nov. 1923: Hitler attempted to seize power by marching into Berlin

The Lean Years

1924-29

May 1928 elections

Nazis only won 12 seats and were the 8th biggest party

Stock Market Crash

Oct. 1929: USA withdrew loans made under Dawes Plan, unemployment x2

September 1930 election

Nazis won 107 seats, Social democrats lost 10 seats (153-143)

Hitler refuses Vice-Chancellor

July 1932

Hitler becomes Chancellor

Jan. 1934

Hitler becomes President

Aug. 1934

Election July 1932

Nazis won 230 seats, Social democrats won 133

Bruning Chancellor

1930-32

Von Papen Chancellor

June-December 1932

von Schleicher chancellor

Dec 1932 - Jan. 1933

Hindenburg President

1925-1934