Nazi Germany Key Dates

1914

Germany enters WW1 in alliance with Austria-Hungary

1918

Germany defeats Russia but is defeated on the Western Front

9th November 1918

Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and the Republic of Germany declared

11th November 1918

Armistice signed to end war on Western Front

5th January 1919

Spartacist uprising in Berlin

1st October 1918

Chancellor Max von Baden forms new government

3rd October 1918

Chancellor von Baden writes to President Wilson asking for an armisitice

24th October 1918

President Wilson replies to von Baden's request for an armistice with his terms

28th October 1918

Kaiser introduces further reforms making the Chancellor accountable to the Reichstag

30th October 1918

Naval mutiny at Wilhelmshaven

3rd November 1918

Naval mutiny spreads to Kiel

8th November 1918

Revolt in Bavaria resulting in the Bavarian royal family being deposed and the Bavarian Socialist Republic being formed

10th November 1918

Ebert-Groener Pact

6th December 1918

Soldiers fire upon a Spartacist demonstration killing 16 people

18th January 1919

Peace conference convened at Palace of Versailles

7th May 1919

German delegates given first draft terms of treaty

16th June 1919

Germans given seven days to sign treaty

20th June 1919

Coalition cabinet collapsed because of divisions over signing treaty

22nd June 1919

Reichstag votes to accept treaty

28th June 1919

German delegates sign the Treaty of Versailles

March 1919

Second Spartacist uprising in Berlin

April 1919

Strikes in Halle and the Ruhr

November 1919

Assassination of Hugo Hasse

February 1920

Kapp Putsch

March 1921

Communist-led revolt in Saxony, which spreads to Hamburg and the Ruhr

August 1921

Assassination of Erzberger

1922

National Welfare Act

June 1922

Assassination of Rathenau

8th - 9th November 1923

Munich Putsch

1920

NSDAP established

1921

Hitler becomes leader of NSDAP and the SA is established

January 1923

French and Belgian troops occupy the Ruhr to force Germany to pay reparations

1924

Public Assistance Scheme

April 1924

Dawes Plan

1925

Hindenburg elected President
State accident insurance scheme

28th February 1925

Death of President Ebert

1926

SS established
Germany accepted into League of Nations
Treaty of Berlin
Allied forces withdraw from zone 1 of the Rhineland
HJ Founded

1927

National Unemployment Insurance Scheme

1929

Young Plan
Allied forces withdraw from zone 2 of the Rhineland

1930

Allied forces withdraw from zone 3 of the Rhineland

October 1929

Wall Street Crash

April 1922

Treaty of Rapello

March 1930

Müller's Grand Coalition collapses
Brüning appointed chancellor

September 1930

Reichstag election, NSDAP sees large gains

July 1931

Financial crisis in Germany

April 1932

Ban on Nazi SA
Hindenburg elected as President

May 1932

Brüning resigns and is replaced by Papen

July 1932

Papen declares a state of emergency in Prussia and dismisses SPD -led government
Reichstag elections, NSDAP become the largest party in the Reichstag

June 1932

Papen lifts ban on the SA

September 1932

Reichstag passes vote of no confidence in Papen's government

November 1932

Reichstag elections
NSDAP lose votes but remain as the largest party

December 1932

Papen forced to resign and is replaced by Schleicher

30th January 1933

Hitler appointed chancellor, in coalition with Papen

1st February 1933

Hitler dissolves the Reichstag and calls new elections

27th February 1933

Reichstag Fire

28th February 1933

Decree for the Protection of the People and State

5th March 1933

Reichstag elections
NSDAP won 288 seats, still short of a majority

6th - 7th March 1933

NSDAP begin to start taking over state governments

8th March 1933

First concentration camp opened at Dachau

13th March 1933

Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Popaganda established

24th March 1933

Enabling Act passed

1st December 1925

Locarno Pact signed

October 1925

Western European powers meet at Locarno

April 1926

Treaty of Berlin

1928

Kellogg-Briand Pact

31st March 1933

1st Law for the Coordination of the Federal States

7th April 1933

Law for the Restoration of a Professional Civil Services
2nd Law for the Coordination of the Federal States

22nd June 1933

SPD outlawed

5th July 1933

ZP voluntarily disbands

14th July 1933

Law Against the Formation of New Parties

12th November 1933

Reichstag elections
NSDAP wins 92% of the vote

30th January 1934

Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich

14th February 1934

Reichsrat abolished

30th June 1934

Night of the Long Knives

2nd August 1934

Death of Hindenburg
Hitler becomes Chancellor and President
Army swears oath of allegiance to Hitler

19th August 1934

Plebiscite held
90% in favour of Hitler becoming Fuhrer

August 1933

SA lose auxiliary police status

January 1934

SA and Stahlhelm membership at 4.5 million

1939

SD have 50,000 officers
SS have 240,000 members
Gestapo have 20,000 officers
3400 people tried by People's Courts
HJ and BDM made complusory

April 1933

Front of German Law created
Law Against the Overcrowding of German Schools
Law for the Reconstruction of a Professional Civil Service
Jewish doctors banned

April 1934

People's Courts founded

1933

10% KPD members murdered
Vetting of textbooks begins
All women barred from the medical and civil service professions
DFW founded
37,000 Jews leave Germany

1935

16% of striking workers spend time in jail
Central directives for curriculum issued by MoE
KDF have 35 million members

1937

Total of 700 pastors imprisoned

1938

Anti-absenteeism laws introduced
34000 companies improve under the SDA
Jews lose entitlement to public welfare
All Jewish children excluded from state schools

1936

HJ membership compulsory

1934

New Plan introduced

November 1933

All university teachers made to sign a Declaration in Support of Hitler and the Nationalist Socialist State

6th May 1933

DAF founded

March 1938

Austria holds Plebiscite against the Anschluss
Germany unites with Austria without opposition

September 1938

Germany annexes the Sudetenland

March 1939

The whole of Czechoslovakia is occupied

August 1939

Navi-Soviet Pact

1st September 1939

Germany invades Poland

3rd September 1939

Britain and France declare war on Germany

April 1938

Decree for the registration of Jewish property

October 1938

All Jewish passports are markes officially

1941

All Jews are required to wear a yellow star

November 1938

150,000 Jews have left Germany voluntarily since March 1933

1940

Kindertransport evacuates 9000 children to Britain since 1938
Madagascar Plan
Jews excluded from entitlement to war rations of clothing