Events
29th sept 1918
Ludendorff calls
for Armistice3rd oct 1918
Pease note26th oct 1918
Ludendorff resigns9th Nov 1918
Armistice signed
Weimar republic10th nov 1918
Ebert-Geoner pact11th nov 1918
Armistice started1919
Weimar republic
1.44 billion marks in
debt
$8.90 is one German Mark5th jan 1919
Spartsist uprising13th jan 1919
Spartasist uprsing
crushed -freikorpsMarch 1919
more spartasist
uprisngs19th jan 1919
first assembly election
Ebert president16th june 1919
germany given 7 days
to sign treaty of V22nd june 1919
Reichstag votes to
sign treaty28th june 1919
sign treatyJan 1919
$64.80 is one German MarkFeb 1919
Kapp putsch1921
reparations set as £6.6 Bill
132 billion gold marks1921
enemployment 1.8%
GB is 17%March 1919
KPD tried to force upsing1920
Communist form red army
50,000 men and seized
control of ruhr - crushed by
freikorps1922
decree for childrens right to education1922
national youth welfare actjan and feb 1922
reparations comittee
granted postponementJuly 1922
law for the protection of rupublicNov 1922
german gov asked for £500 mill
loan to stabalise economy
france said no1923
HyperinflationJan 1923
$17,970 is one German Marksept 1923
$98,860,000 is one German Mark15th Nov 1923
$4,200,000,000,000 is one German MarkJan 1923
French and belgium
troops occupied ruhr
60,000 menChancellor calls for
passive resistanceAug 1923
great coalition startsnov 9th-10th 1923
Beer Hall putschJuly 1923
costitution approved1920
NSDAP established1921
Hister becomes
leader of NSDAP
SA established1922
treaty of RapalloFeb 1924
hitler sentenced to
5 yearsApril 1924
Dawes PlanDec 1924
Hitler realsed from prison
after 9 months1925
Hindenburg President1926
SS established1926
league of nationsJune 1929
young planOct 1929
Wall street crashjuly 1932
NSDAP becomes largest
party in Reichstag electionNov 1932
NSDAP loses votes
in Reichstage election
but still largest31st Jan 1933
Hitler Chancellor31 jan 1933
Göring appointed as
Reich-Commissioner for
Prussia1st feb 1933
Hitler dissolved the
Reichstag and called
for a new election27th Feb 1933
Reichstag Fire28th Feb 1933
The decree of the protection
of people and state5th march 1933
reichstag election
Nazis 288 seats6th March 1933
nazis start taking
over state gov8th March 1933
Dachau opened13th March 1933
minestry of propaganda
set up23rd March 1933
Enabling Act passed
444/94 majority31st march 1933
First Law for the coordination
of the Federal States is passed-
Regional parliaments dissolved and
replaced with Nazi dominated assemblies7th april 1933
second Law for the coordination
of the Federal StatesApril 1933
goering made minister
president of prussia2nd may 1933
Trade unions banned22nd june 1933
SPD outlawed27th june 1933
DNVP dissolve
voluntarily5th july 1933
Centre Party
dissolve voluntarily20th july 1933
concordat with
catholic church14th july 1933
law against making
new parties12th nov 1933
Reichstag elections
nazies got 92% vote30th jan 1934
Law for the reconstruction
of the reich passed14th feb 1934
Reichsrat abloshedApril 1934
Himmler put in
chage of all police
SS SD and Gestapo30th june 1934
Night of the Long Knives2nd aug 1934
President Hindenburg Dead
One hour later Hitler Führer19th Aug 1934
Hitler offically Führer1st April 1933
Jewish boycott7th April 1933
Law for the Rstoration
of a professional civil
service25th April 1933
Law for the
overcrowding of German
schools6th may 1933
attack on sexology
institute12th july 1933
law for the prevention
of hereitary diseased
progeny18th -25th sept 1933
Beggars weekoct 1933
Reich law passedApril 1934
creation of the Reich
Confessional ChurchSept 1935
Nuremburg Laws
-Law for the protection of
German Blood and Honour
- Reich citizenship law1936
Berlin Olympics1936 beggars and asocials rounded up
and put into concentration campsMarch 1938
annexation of AustriaApril 1938
Anschluss plebisciteapril - may 1938
500 Jews commit suicide
due to the Anschlussjune 1938
national campaign against
work shy. 11,000 sent to CCSept 1938
Hitler demanded Sudetenland
Czechoslovakia
negotiations with allies28th oct 1938
17,000 polish jews in
germany arrrested and threated
deporation but instead strandedOct 1938
Jewish Passports
stammped with J9th - 10th nov 1938
Reichkristallnacht8th dec 1938
Himmler announces
'struggle against gypsy
plauge'March 1939
Hitler annexed the rest of
Czechoslovakia illegaly1935
Hitler announced remarmaent
programmeMarch 1936
German troops enter
demiliterised Rhineland1936
four year plan
Goeing incharge1937
encyclical letter from popefeb 1938
hitler purges army
leadership for further control1939
membership of hitler youth
becomes mandatoryApril 1939
Decree for the
registration of
jewish property23rd aug 1939
Molotov-Ribbentrop pactAug 1939
rationing of food stuffs
begins1st sept 1939
Germany invades Poland3rd sept 1939
Britian Declares
War on GermanyOct 1939
T4 programme begins
euthenisaia of disabled children1939
Roma and Sinti start getting
deported to concentraion
camps in poland
GhettoisationAug 1941
chrches protects T4
temporarily stoppedMay 1938
nuremburg laws come
into effect in austriaFeb 1940
creation of Lodz ghettoMay - June 1940
Madagascar plan createdJune 1941
Operation Barbarossa20th Jan 1942
Wannsee conferenceJan 1940
First gassing of
mentally illApril 1940
Germany invades Denmark
and NorwayMay 1940
Germany invades Holland
Belgium and FranceJune 1940
France defeatedoct 1940
Warsaw Ghetto sealed1941
Einsatzgruppen deplyed
behind eastern frontDec 1941
German decloration of war on USA1942
total war messures in germanyApril 1942
opening of Sobibor
death camp1942
mass deportation of jews
from Western Europe to
AuschwitzDec 1942
German gypsies
deported to AuschwitzJan 1943
German defeat at Stalingrad
turning point of war1943
start of sustrained
bombing campaign against
Germany by GB and USA1943
Warsaw Ghetto uprisingJune 1944
D-Day reopens
western front1944
mass deportations
of Hungarian Jews
to AuschwitzJuly 1944
Attempt to assassinate
Hitler by Army officers
Bomb plot fails1944
start of death marchesJan 1944
Soviet forces enter
Germany from east1944
Liberation of Auschwitz
and other campsMarch 1944
GB and USA forces enter
Germany from WestApril 1944
Hitler commits suicideMay 1944
Germany concedes defeat
with unconditional surrenderMarch 1930
grand coalition collapseMarch 1930
Bruning chancellorSept 1930
Reichstag election
nazis and KPD major gainsjuly 1931
Financial crisisApril 1932
SA bannedApril 1932
Hindenburg re-elected
as presidentMay 1932
Bruning resigns
replaced by Von-Papen
as chancellorjune 1932
Von Papen lifted
SA banjuly 1932
Papen declares state of
emergency in Prussia
dismissed SPD led govSept 1932
Reichstag passed vote
of no confidence in
Von Papen's govDec 1932
Papen forced to
resign and replaced
by SchleicherJan 1933
Hitler and Papen agree to
work together in coalition
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