Transcript Weimar Germany Timeline

Weimar Germany Revision Timeline
1918 -
WW1 ends (11/11/1918 – Armistice signed)
Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates
1919 - Weimar Republic begins (Ebert elected first President)
Spartacist Uprising
Treaty of Versailles signed
1920 - Freikorps Kapp Putsch (March 1920)
1923 - Failure to pay reparations leads to occupation of Ruhr (January 1923)
Passive resistance by workers in Ruhr
Hyperinflation
Gustav Stresemann becomes Chancellor, calls off passive resistance,
introduces new currency, Rentenmark
Munich Putsch (November 1923) Hitler imprisoned in Landsberg Prison
1924 - Dawes Plan
1925 - Locarno Treaties
1926 - Germany accepted into League of Nations
Censorship relaxed (writers, artists, cinema, cabaret, architecture flourished, e.g.
Bauhaus style of design, artist George Grosz, actress Marlene Dietrich etc)
1927-28 German economy recovering
1929 - Young Plan
Wall Street Crash (29th October 1929) Depression, 6 million Germans unemployed
Hitler’s Rise to Power Revision Timeline
1919 1920 1921 -
1923 1924 1925 1929 1930 1932 1933 -
1934 -
Adolf Hitler joins the DAP (German Workers Party)
DAP renamed NSDAP ( National Socialist German Workers’ Party or Nazis)
Nazis introduce 25 point programme
Hitler replaces Anton Drexler as leader of Nazis
Hitler creates the SA, or Stormtroopers / Brownshirts
Munich Putsch fails, Hitler imprisoned for 9 Months, writes Mein Kampf
Election – Nazis win 32 seats, still a minority
Hitler creates SS / Blackshirts
Wall Street Crash (29th October 1929)
Election – Nazis are 2nd largest party with 107 seats in Reichstag
July Election – Nazis biggest party with 230 seats (lose some seats in November
1932 Election but still largest party)
Hitler appointed Chancellor (30th January 1933)
Reichstag Fire(27th February 1933)
Emergency Decree passed (28th February 1933)
Election (5th March 1933) Communists banned
Enabling Act (24th March 1924)
All Political parties banned, Germany becomes a 1-party state (14th July 1933)
Night of the Long Knives (30th June 1933)
Death of Hindenburg (August 1933) Hitler becomes Fuhrer (Supreme Leader)
Army swear oath of loyalty to Hitler (2nd August 1934)
Life in Nazi Germany Revision Timeline
1921 1925 1926 1933 -
1935 1936 -
1938 1939 -
1942 1944 1945 -
SA created
SS created
Hitler Youth founded, Young Girls and League of German Maidens set up
Hitler appointed Chancellor (30th January 1933)
1st concentration camps set up (eg Dachau) and run by Heinrich Himmler’s SS
Hermann Goering sets up Gestapo
Joseph Goebbels appointed Minister of Propaganda – controls all media
Book burning of anti-Nazi books held (May 1933)
6 million people unemployed in Germany
Trade Unions banned (2nd May 1933)
Employment Law – public works programmes set up (4th June 1933)
German Labour Front, Strength Through Joy, Beauty of Labour set up
Re-armament begins
Concordat agreed between Hitler and Catholic Church (20th July 1933)
Hitler Youth has 100 000 members
Nuremberg rallies held
Conscription to army re-introduced
Four Year Plan announced headed by Goering
Olympics held in Berlin
Hitler Youth has over 5 million members
Kristallnacht (Night of broken glass) Jewish businesses, synagogues targeted
Hitler Youth becomes compulsory
WW2 breaks out (September 1939)
Food and clothes rationing begins
‘Final Solution’ decided about the ‘Jewish problem’
12 Edelweiss Pirates publicly hanged for attacking Gestapo (November 1944)
July Bomb Plot fails (20th July 1944)
Hitler commits suicide in Berlin (29th April 1945)
WW2 ends (May 1945)
Persecution of Jews Revision Timeline
1923 1933 -
1935 -
1938 -
1939 1941 -
1942 1945 -
Hitler writes Mein Kampf in prison, blaming Jews as scapegoats for all Germany’s problems
Hitler appointed Chancellor (30th January 1933)
Book burning of anti-Nazi books held (May 1933)
Boycott of Jewish shops organised by SA
Jews banned from jobs in civil service, medicine, teaching and journalism
Jews banned from public places such as swimming pools, restaurants, parks and cinemas
Nuremberg laws passed – Jews deprived of German citizenship, outlawing
marriage of Jews and non-Jews
Hundreds of Jews sent arrested and sent to concentration camps
Kristallnacht (Night of broken glass) Jewish businesses, synagogues targeted
All Jews over 15 must carry identity cards
Jews banned from attending university and practising law and medicine
WW2 breaks out (September 1939)
Warsaw Ghetto set up in Poland
Germany invades USSR
Einsatzgruppen SS Units carry out mass murders of Eastern European Jews
All Jews have to wear Star of David badge
Final Solution’ decided about the ‘Jewish problem’
concentration camps become extermination camps (eg. Aushwitz)
Warsaw Ghetto uprisings
Liberation of extermination camps by Allied forces (April - May 1945)