Germany 1918-1947

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Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated
9th November 1918
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Armistice signed
11 November 1918
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Weimar Republic established
January 1919
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Treaty of Versailles
28th June 1919
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Spartacist Uprising
1919
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Anton Drexler founds the German Worker's Party (D.A.P)
1919
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Adolf Hitler joins the D.A.P
September 1919
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Kapp Putsch
1920
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Hitler takes charge of propaganda
1920
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Hitler and Drexler write the '25 Point Programme' political manifesto
February 1920
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DAP has 1100 members
June 1920
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Hitler becomes the leader and changes the name to the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party)
July 1921
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The SA (Brownshirts/Stormtroopers) is set up by Ernst Roehm
1921
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Invasion of the Ruhr
1923
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Government print more money to may off second instalment of reparations
1923
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Hyperinflation
November 1923
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Munich Putsch
8th and 9th November 1923
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Nazi Party lifts Hitler's ban
1924
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** is set up
1924
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Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth) is set up
1924
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Nazi Party gets 32 seats in the General Election
1924
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Hitler and General Ludendorff are put on trial
February 1924
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27000 members of the Nazi Party
1925
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Over 100 000 members of the Nazi Party
1928
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Nazi Party gets only 12 seats in the General Election
1928
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Wall Street Crash - Depression in German Economy
October 1929
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Support for Communists (77 seats) and Nazis (107 seats) rose in General Election
September 1930
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Unemployment peak at 6.2 million
1932
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Heinrich Bruening appointed as Chancellor
March 1930
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Bruening resigns
May 1932
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Nazis secure 230 seats (37%) and are now the largest party in the Reichstag
May 1932
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Presidential Elections (Hitler gets 13.4 mil votes, Hindenburg gets 19.3 mil votes)
March 1932
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Von Papen becomes Chancellor
June 1932
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Von Schleicher becomes Chancellor
December 1932
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Hitler becomes Chancellor with von Papen as Vice-Chancellor
30th January 1933
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Unemployment at 6 million
January 1933
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Joining the National Labour Service is now compulsory
1935
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Army is at 100 000
1933
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Conscription is introduced
1936
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Army is at 1 400 000 and unemployment stands at 350 000
1939
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German Labour Front set up to replace trade unions and Strength through Joy (KDF) is set up
May 1933
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Volkswagen scheme is introduced (save 5 marks a week to buy the car eventually)
1938
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Hindenburg dies and Hitler become Chancellor and President, becoming Fuehrer
2nd August 1934
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Over 90% of voters agree with Hitler as Fuehrer in a referendum
19th August 1934
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Law for the Encouragment of Marriage introduced
1933
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Lebensborn programme introduced
1936
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Nazi Party attracts electoral support
1932
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The Reichstag Fire
27th February 1933
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The Enabling Act
23rd March 1933
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Other political parties banned
14th July 1933 (with all trade unions banned on 2nd May 1933)
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Night of the Long Knives
30th June 1934
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Members of the ** had to be Aryan, led by Heimlich Himmler
After 1929
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50 000 members of the **
1934
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Gestapo set up by Hermann Goering
1933
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160 000 under arrest for political crimes
1939
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Dachau (first) concentration camp opened
April 1933
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German Lawyers Front established
October 1933
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People's Court established
1934
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Over 500 sentenced to death
1939
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46 crimes punishable by death
1943
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Ministry for Propaganda set up Joseph Goebbels
March 1934
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550 000 Jews in Germany
1933
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280 000 Jews in Germany
1939
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The Hitler Youth Law
1936
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The Second Hitler Youth Law
1939
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Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses and Jews were banned from high position jobs
April 1933
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Jews banned from the Armed Forces
May 1935
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The Nuremburg Laws
September 1935
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Jewish Passports are stamped with a large red 'J'
October 1938
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Kristallnacht
9th-10th November 1938
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Jews evicted from homes and forced in ghettos
April 1939
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Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide
30th April 1945
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Goebbels commits suicide
1st May 2945
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Germany surrenders
8th May 1945
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Einsatzgruppen murder over 2 million Jews
1943
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Wannsee Conference (planning of the Final Solution)
20th January 1942
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Camps liberated by Allies
1945
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July Bomb Plot (Count Stauffenberg planned to assassinate Hitler but failed and was shot)
20th July 1944
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11 November 1918

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Armistice signed

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January 1919

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28th June 1919

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1919

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