Germany key dates and events

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9th November, 1918
Kaiser abdicated
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11th November, 1918
Armistice signed - Germany lost the war
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January, 1919
Spartacist Uprising
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28th June, 1919
Treaty of Versailles
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1920
Kapp Putsch
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1923
Ruhr Crisis
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1923
Hyperinflation
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1923
New currency - passive resistance called off
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1923
Munich putsch
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1924
Mein Kampf written
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1924-1929
Golden Years (Stresemann)
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1929
Wall Street Crash
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1932
Unemployment reached 6 million
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January, 1933
Hitler appointed Chancellor
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27th February, 1933
Reichstag Fire
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23rd March, 1933
Enabling Act - Hitler can make his own laws
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26th April, 1933
Local government reorganised - Country is carved into 42 Gaus
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April, 1933
Gestapo set up
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2nd May, 1933
Trade Unions abolished
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20th June, 1933
Concordat - Agreement with Pope. Hitler can take over political power
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14th July, 1933
Political parties banned - Only Nazi party allowed
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24th April, 1934
People's Courts - Judges have to swear an oath of loyalty to Nazis
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30th June, 1934
Night of the Long Knives - ** murders SA members
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19th August, 1934
Führer - Hitler declares himself as President, Chancellor and head of army
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1934
New Plan
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1935
Nuremburg Laws - Jews lost citizenship
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1936
Berlin Olympics
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1936
Hitler Youth compulsory
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1936
Nazi economic policy - 4 Year Plan
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1938
Kristallnacht - Turning point of treatment towards Jews
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1938
Jews get put into Ghettos
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1938
Mother's Cross introduced - encourages pregnancy
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1939
Jews wear yellow armbands
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1939
WW2 begins
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1939
Euthanasia (T4) Programme started
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1940
Jews deported to Poland
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1941
War declared on USSR and USA
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1941
Atrocities - Mass shootings of Jews
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1942
Final Solution - Wansee Conference
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1943
Germany had lost all of its Eastern gains at this point - war going badly
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1943
Leaders of White Rose group executed (Sophie and Hans Scholl)
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1944
July Bomb Plot
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1944
Public hanging of Edelweiss Pirates
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1944
Bad conditions in Germany - no food or resources
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1944
Cities in Germany being bombed very badly by allies
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1945
WW2 ends
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Armistice signed - Germany lost the war

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11th November, 1918

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Spartacist Uprising

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Treaty of Versailles

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Kapp Putsch

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