History

November 11 - World War One Armistice

January 5-12 - Spartacist Revolt

February - Weimar Republic established

June 28th - Signing of the Treaty of Versailles 

March 13-17 - Kapp Putch

January 11th - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr

August 13th - Gustav Stresemann becomes Chancellor 

November 8th - Munich Beer Hall Putch

November 23rd - Stresemann's Government collapses

December - German Hyperinflation Peaks

Septmeber - Dawes Plan Comes into effect

January - Hitler gets Chancellorship

February 27th - Reichstag Fire

March 23rd - Enabling Act make Hitler Dictator

April 1st - Jewish Boycott of Jewish Owned businesses and of Jewish Professionals began

May - Trade Unions banned in Germany

July - Political Parties (other than Nazis) were banned

June 30th - Beginning of the Night of Long Knives

September 15th - Nuremburg Laws

August - Berlin Olympics

November 9-10 - Kristallnacht

Septmeber 1 - Invasion of Poland marks the outbreak of World War 2

The Nazis begin the 'Final Solution'

July 20 - Attempted assassination of Hitler by the Stauffenberg Plot

April 30th - Hitler Comitted suicide

May 8th - Final surrender of German Army

February - Yalta Conference

May - Germany Defeated

July - Potsdam Conference

August - US Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima

March - Churchill's Iron Churchill Speech

March - Truman Doctrine

June - Marshall Plan announced

September - Cominform set up by Stalin

February - Communists take over Czehoslovakia

June - Yugoslavia expelled from the Cominform & Berlin Blockade Begins

April - Formation of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)

May - Berlin Blockade Lifted

June - Outbreak of the Korean War

November - Testing of the first Hydrogen Bomb

March - Death of Stalin

July - Ceasefire in Korea

The 'Thaw'

May - Warsaw Pact

February - Krushchev makes his secret speech

November - Soviets crush Hungarian Uprising

October - USSR launches first satellite into space - Sputnik 1

October - USA launches Explorer 1

May - U2 Crisis; Paris Summit Conference

April - Soviets launch first man into Space & Bay of Pigs

May - First American in space

August - Berlin Wall built

October - Cuban Missile Crisis

October - Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

August - Soviet Troops in Czechoslovakia & The Breznev Doctrine

July - USA lands first man on the Moon