Studied by 0 peopleKaiser Wilhelm fled to Holland
November 1918
Friedrich Ebert suspended the old Republic and formed the Council of People’s Representatives
November 1918
The Treaty of Versailles
11th November 1918
The Weimar Constitution was signed
1919
The Freikorps had 250,000 men
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
1914-18
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
1923
Gustav Stresseman appointed chancellor
August 1923
Stresseman set up the Rentenbank and issued the Rentenmark
1923
The Dawes Plan
1924
The Young Plan ~ reduced reparations to £2 billion
1929
Under the Young Plan, reparations were to be paid off (by this year)
1988
Gustav Stresemann resigned chancellorship (but remained at foreign secretary until 1929)
1923
Locarno Pact
1925
League of Nations set up (Germany excluded)
1920
Germany became a member of the League of Nations
1926
Kellog-Briand pact signed
1928
101,000 homes were built
1925-29
Women earned the vote
1918
75% of women worked
1918
36% of women worked
1925
Hitler born in Austria
1889
Adolf Hitler moved to Munich
1913
Anton Drexler set up the DAP - German Workers’ Party - in Munich
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
1920
Hitler took over control of the NSDAP from Drexler
1921
Hitler and Drexler wrote up the 25-point programme
1920
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
1923
Hitler with 1000 SA and 2000 volunteers marched on Munich town centre ~ the Munich Putsch
1923
Hitler was released from prison
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
1933
Nazis have 18% of the vote
1930
Nazis have 32% of the vote
1932
The Reichstag Fire
27th February 1933
Hitler persuaded Hindenburg to call an election after the Reichstag Fire
March 1933
The Enabling Act
1933
Trade Unions replaced with German Labour Fronts + many union officials arrested
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
Joseph Goebbels was Reich Minister of Enlightenment and Propaganda
1933-45
Berlin Olympic Games
1936
Niemoller voted for the Nazis
1924 and 1933
Niemoller was repeatedly arrested for speaking against the Nazis
1934-37
Neimoller was in concentration camps (ending in Dachau)
1938-45
The Edelweiss Pirates had 2,000 members
1939
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
It was compulsorary for all men to serve 6 months as part of RAD (National Labour Service)
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
1938
Average wages rose by 20% from 1933
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
The SA boycotted Jewish shops + painted yellow stars
April 1933
Jewish actors + musicians banned from performing
Jewish civil servants sacked
Jews couldn’t join army
Jews banned from inheriting land
One day SA boycott of Jewish lawyers + doctors
1933
Jews were banned from public places such as parks and swimming pools
1934
Jews were banned/restricted from working as vets, accountants, teachers, dentists and nurses
1936
Jewish businesses were taken over by Aryans
1937
Jews had to register their property
Jewish passports had to be stamped with a “J”
“Israel” or “Sarah” had to be added to Jewish names
1938
Jews were barred from owning businesses
The Reich Office for Jewish Emigration was set up to expel all Jews from Germany
1939
A 17-year-old Polish Jew entered the German embassy in Paris and shot a German
1938
Goebbels used the Paris shooting as a reason to attack homes and synagogues in Hanover
November 1938
Goebbels and Hitler decided on Kristallnacht
November 1938
Kristallnacht
9th-10th November 1938
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