Studied by 0 peopleKaiser Wilhelm visited army headquarters in Spa where ministers tried to persuade him to abdicate
9th November 1918
Kaiser Wilhelm fled to Holland
10th November 1918
The German Republic was declared by Philipp Scheidemann of the SPD
9th November 1918
Friedrich Ebert suspended the old Republic and formed the Council of People’s Representatives
10th November 1918
The Treaty of Versailles
11th November 1918
The Weimar Constitution was signed
31st July 1919
Memel was lost to Lithuania
1923
The Freikorps had 250,000 men
March 1919
Spartacists took over the government’s newspaper and telegraph bureau and tried to organise a general strike in Berlin
January 1919
Freikorp troops marched on Berlin ~ the Kapp Putsch
March 1920
Bread was worth 1 mark
1919
Bread was worth 100 marks
1922
Bread was worth 200,000 billion marks
1923
Government printed more money to pay for WW1 but was bankrupt due to lack of gold
1914 - 1918
Weimar government printed money for post-war shortages and asked for longer to pay the 1st reparation instalment
1918 - 1922
French troops invaded the Ruhr where 80% of Germany’s coal, iron and steel reserves were, plus many factories ~ workers went on strike + gov. printed more money
January 1923
The German mark was worthless
November 1923
Gustav Stresseman appointed chancellor
August 1923
Stresseman set up the Rentenbank and issued the Rentenmark
November 1923
The Reichsbank was given control of the new currency, which became the Reichsmark
August 1924
The Dawes Plan
1st September 1924
The Young Plan ~ reduced reparations to £2 billion
August 1929
Under the Young Plan, reparations were to be paid off (by this year)
1988
Industrial output doubled (by this year) and passed pre-WW1 levels
1928
Gustav Stresemann resigned chancellorship (but remained at foreign secretary until 1929)
November 1923
Locarno Pact
1st December 1925
League of Nations set up (Germany excluded)
1920
Germany became a member of the League of Nations
September 1926
Kellog-Briand pact signed
27th August 1928
101,000 homes were built
1925 - 1929
Women earned the vote
1918
75% of women worked
1918
36% of women worked
1925
“The Woman One Longs For” is directed by Bernhardt
1929
Gropius’ school, the Bauhaus School, began to focus on architechture
1927
The Bauhaus School set up by Walter Gropius
1919
Hitler born in Austria
1889
Adolf Hitler moved to Munich
1913
Anton Drexler set up the DAP - German Workers’ Party - in Munich
February 1919
Hitler joined the DAP
September 1919
Hitler became the DAP’s second in command
1920
Hitler suggested a new name for the DAP - the National Socialist German Workers’ Party - NSDAP, or NAZI Party for short
August 1920
Hitler took over control of the NSDAP from Drexler
July 1921
Hitler and Drexler wrote up the 25-point programme
February 1920
Hitler formed the Sturmabteilung (SA) and put Ernst Rohm in charge
August 1921
Mussolini marched on Rome, and the Fascists overthrew the democratic government
1922
Hitler with 6000 SA entered a beer hall in Munich where the Bavarian government was meeting
8th November 1923
Hitler with 1000 SA and 2000 volunteers marched on Munich town centre ~ the Munich Putsch
9th November 1923
Hitler found hiding after Munich Putsch
11th November 1923
Hitler was released from prison
December 1924
The ban on the NSDAP was lifted (by this year)
1925
Hitler was banned from public speaking (until)
1927
Bamberg Conference
February 1926
The Wall Street Crash
October 1929
6 million Germans were unemployed
January 1933
Nazis have 18% of the vote
1930
Nazis have 32% of the vote
July 1932
The Reichstag Fire
27th February 1933
Hitler persuaded Hindenburg to call an electrion after the Reichstag Fire
March 1933
The Enabling Act
March 1933
Local governments closed + reorganised with Nazi majorities
31st March 1933
Trade Unions replaced with German Labour Fronts + many union officials arrested
2nd May 1933
SPD/Communist funds and offices were taken by Nazis
May 1933
Other political parties banned
July 1933
Hitler set up the SS (Schutzstaffel) as his personal bodyguards - selected by Schreck and then Himmler
1925
Night of the Long Knives
30th June 1934
Hindenburg died ~ a Law Concerning the Head of State was passed + Hitler announced that the army should swear an oath of allegiance to him, not to Germany
August 1934
Heinrich Himmler set up the SD (security service) to be lead by Reinhard Heydrich
1931
Herman Goerring set up the Gestapo (secret state police) to be lead by Reinhard Heydrich
1933
The first concentration camp was set up in Dachau
1933
The Concordat
July 1933
The Reich Church was founded ~ 2,000 Protestant churches + lead by Ludwig Muller
1933
The Confessional Church was founded ~ 6,000 Protestant churches + led by Martin Neimoller
Joseph Goebbels was Reich Minister of Enlightenment and Propaganda
1933 - 1945
Berlin Olympic Games
1936
Reich Chamber of Culture set up
1933
Niemoller voted for the Nazis
1924 and 1933
Niemoller was repeatedly arrested for speaking against the Nazis
1934 - 1937
Neimoller was in concentration camps (ending in Dachau)
1938 - 1945
The Edelweiss Pirates had 2,000 members
1939
The number of employed married women fell
1933 - 1936
The Marriage Law introduced Marriage Loans
1933
The Hitler Youth formed military brigades to help defend Berlin
1945
70% of Germans had a radio
1939
The Lebensborn programme set up
December 1935
Membership of the Hitler Youth was compulsorary
1936
The Hitler Youth had 7 million members
1939
All textbooks had to be approved by the Nazi Party
1935
It was compulsorary for all men to serve 6 months as part of RAD (National Labour Service)
July 1935
Hitler announced that Germany were going to begin rearming themselves for war
1935
26 billion marks were spent on rearmament
1939
1 million Germans were unemployed
January 1938
Nobody had paid enough to buy a VW Beetle
1939
Average wages rose by 20% from 1933
1939
Average weekly work was 43 hours
1933
Average weekly work was 49 hours
1939
The Nuremberg Laws
1935
All gypsies were arrested and banned from travelling
1938
Gypsies were told they would be deported
1939
The Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring ~ sterilised mentally handicapped people
1933
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