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| Question | Answer |
| November 1918 | "The German Revolution" Germany surrenders and World War One ends. The Kaiser abdicates and is replaced by new Government based in Weimar, Germany |
| January 1919 (2 EVENTS) | Spartacist Rising takes place in Berlin- fails- Freikorps kill Communists including leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. AND German Workers' Party formed under leadership of Anton Drexler |
| June 28th 1919 | Treaty of Versailles signed in France, imposing strict conditions on Germany |
| July 1919 | The official constitution (set of rules) for the Weimar Republic is made law |
| February 1920 | The German Workers' Party (DAP) is rebranded the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP in German, Nazi for short) |
| March 1920 | The Kapp Putsch- Wolfgang Kapp leads Freikorps into Berlin to seize control- backlash against ToV - STAB IN BACK Myth, failed as Gov asked workers to strike. |
| 28th July 1921 | Hitler formally elected as Nazi Party chairman |
| January 1923 | French and Belgian troops occupy the industrial Ruhr area of Germany as response to Germany's non-payment of reparations |
| January-October 1923 | Germany is gripped by Hyperinflation |
| What 3 events happened in November 1923? | Stresemann calls of passive resistance in the Ruhr. Rentenmark replaced Reichsmark as German currency. Hitler makes first attempt to seize control of Germany - Munich (Beer Hall) Putsch FAILS |
| February 1924 | The Dawes Plan is agreed between Germany and USA. USA lends money to Germany to help rebuild the economy. |
| April 1924 | Hitler sent to Landsberg Prison for his part in Munich Putsch and Nazi Party banned in state of Bavaria |
| December 1924 | Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison and ban on Nazis in Bavaria is lifted |
| February 1925 | Hitler officially 're-launches' the Nazi Party following the lifting of the ban in Bavaria |
| May 1925 | Paul von Hindenburg becomes president of the Weimar Republic |
| October 1925 | The Locarno Treaty is signed improving relationships between Germany and France |
| September 1926 | Germany joins League of Nations and remains member for 7 years |
| May 1928 | Nazis only manage to win 3% of votes in Reichstag elections- seen as joke |
| October 1929 | WALL STREET CRASH - New York Stock Exchange crashes triggering worldwide economic depression- THE GREAT DEPRESSION begins |
| May 1930 | Nazis make first major breakthrough in elections increasing vote share from 3% to 18% |
| July 1932 | Nazis win 230 seats (37.3%) in Reichstag making them largest single party but Hindenburg makes Franz von Papen chancellor |
| November 1932 | Nazis lose 4% of their seats in Reichstag due to their violent actions but still remain largest party |
| December 1932 | Hindenburg makes Von Schleicher chancellor, but this proves unpopular in the Reichstag |
| January 1933 | Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany |
| 27th February 1933 | The Reichstag Fire- supposed 'Communist Plot' |
| 23rd March 1933 | The Enabling Act was passed giving Hitler power to make laws without consulting Reichstag |
| March-July 1933 | Hitler destroys most of the organised opposition to Nazis in wake of Reichstag Fire |
| June 1933 | Hitler signs a "Concordat" with Catholic Church that Nazis would leave Catholic Church alone if the Catholics stayed out of politics |
| June 1934 | The Night of the Long Knives- Hitler destroys his rivals in the SA |
| August 1934 | President Hindenburg dies. Hitler combines the office of Chancellor and President to become the Fuhrer (leader) |
| September 1935 | The Nuremberg Race Laws are passed forbidding marriage of Aryans and Jews |
| August 1936 | The Berlin Olympics gives Hitler and Goebbels chance to show off Nazism to the world |
| November 1938 | Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) Jewish businesses and places of worship are attacked- no insurance, have to clean it up |
| September 1939 | Germany invades Poland and triggers off World War Two |
| June 1941 | Germany launches an invasion of the USSR (Russia) |
| January 1942 | The "Final Solution of the Jewish Problem" is drawn up at Wannsee Conference in Germany |
| May 1943 | The Warsaw Uprising- Jews imprisoned in Warsaw ghetto rise up against German soldiers |
| July 1944 | Colonel von Stauffenberg attempts to assassinate Hitler using a bomb in a briefcase |
| April-May 1945 | Hitler commits suicide and Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers (UK, USA, USSR). The War in Europe ends. |
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