Hitler takes over the German Workers' Party / National Socialists / Nazis.
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January 1919
Spartacist Uprising in Berlin - led by the Communists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Leibknecht.
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February 1919
Weimar Republic set up
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March 1920
Kapp Putsch - Wolfgang Kapp takes over Berlin, workers go on strike to stop him.
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1923
Hyperinflation
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9 November 1923
Munich Putsch - At beer hall. 16 Nazis killed and Hitler arrested 2 days later.
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1928
Nazis only had 12 seats in the Reichstag
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1929
American Stock Exchange collapsed - caused an economic depression. America called in all its foreign loans, so President Hindenburg used Article 48 to pass the measures by decree.
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July 1932
Nazis had 230 seats - the largest party in the Reichstag
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1933
Boycott of Jewish businesses. Jewish civil servants, lawyers and teachers sacked. Race Science lessons to teach that Jews are untermensch (sub-human).
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January 1933
Hitler was appointed chancellor - began to use Article 48 to rule Germany
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27 February 1933
Reichstag Fire - Dutch Communist van der Lubbe is to blame. Gives Hitler an opportunity to imprison Communists, stopping them campaigning, and allowed Nazis to say the country was in danger from the communists.
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5 March 1933
General Election - only 44 per cent of the population vote for the Nazis, who win 288 seats in the Reichstag. This is enough for the Enabling Act
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23 March 1933
Enabling Act - the SA (a Nazi military organisation) intimidates all the remaining non-Nazi deputies. The Reichstag votes to give Hitler the right to make his own laws.
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2 May 1933
Trade unions are abolished and their leaders arrested.
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20 June 1933
Concordat - Hitler makes an agreement with the Pope who sees him as someone who can destroy communism. This agreement allows Hitler to take over political power in Germany as long as he leaves the Catholic Church alone.
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14 July 1933
Political parties are banned - only the Nazi party is allowed to exist.
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24 April 1934
People's Courts - Hitler sets up the Nazi people's courts where judges have to swear an oath of loyalty to the Nazis.
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30 June 1934
Light of the Long Knives - The ** (German police organisation) murders perhaps 400 of the SA members, including its leader Röhm, along with a number of Hitler's other opponents.
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19 August 1934
Hindenburg dies - Hitler declares himself Führer; joint president, chancellor and head of the army.
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1935
Re-armament ('guns before butter') began. 'Jews not wanted here' signs put up at swimming pools etc.
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15 September 1935
Nuremberg laws - Jews could not be citizens. They were not allowed to vote or to marry a German.
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1936
Olympic Games - Success with propaganda
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1937
Pope's message 'With Burning Concern' attacked Hitler as 'a mad prophet with repulsive arrogance' and was read in every Catholic church.
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1938
Jews could not be doctors. Jews had to add the name Israel (men) or Sarah (women) to their name. Jewish children forbidden to go to school.
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9 November 1938
Kristallnacht - attacks on Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues.
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1939
1.4 million men in the army and virtually no unemployment, however Jews were forbidden to own a business, or own a radio. Jews were forced to live in ghettos.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Spartacist Uprising in Berlin - led by the Communists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Leibknecht.
Back
January 1919
Card 3
Front
Weimar Republic set up
Back
Card 4
Front
Kapp Putsch - Wolfgang Kapp takes over Berlin, workers go on strike to stop him.
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