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36 Cards in this Set
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11th November 1918 |
Armistice signed - Fighting stops on the Western Front |
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January 1919 |
Spartacist Uprising - Put down by the Weimar Provisional Govenment with the Freikorp's support |
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28th June 1919 |
Treaty of Versailles signed |
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11th August 1919 |
Birth of the Weimar Republic |
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1920 |
Kapp Putsch - Defeated by striking Berlin workers |
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1921 |
Germany starts paying reparations |
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1922 |
Germany temporarily stop paying reparations |
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1923 |
- France and Belgium invade the German territory of the Ruhr Valley to claim reparations -Hyperinflation - Eventually ended by the Dawes Plan and Introduction of the new German currency, the Rentenmark. -Streseman becomes Chancellor -Munich Putsch - It's failure prompts the Nazis to turn to electoral politics as a means to gain power |
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1924 |
Dawes Plan - Ends Hyperinflation |
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1924 - 1929 |
Golden Age of the Weimar Republic- Enjoyed by urban middle class, but traditional Germans disproved of its culture |
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1925 |
Locarno Treaties -Germany agrees to its Western borders |
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1926 |
Germany Joins the League of Nation - The result of the signing of the Locarno Treaties |
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1929 |
- Streseman dies - He had been heavily involved with the Weimar Govenment through an age of peace and prosperity - Young Plan - American plan intended to make Germany's reparations easier but never gets going due to the Wall Street Crash - The Wall Street Crash - The start of the Great Depression |
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24th October 1929 |
The Wall Street Crash - Start of the Great Depression |
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30th January 1933 |
Hitler is appointed Chancellor |
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27th February 1933 |
The Reichstag Fire - Communists blamed, laws passed allowing Nazis to beat up and arrest the leading the KPD (Communist) members |
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5th March 1933 |
Reichstag Elections - Nazis just short of majority |
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24th March 1933 |
Enabling Act - Hitler gets a coalition to vote through law which makes him a virtual dictator |
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30th June - 1st July 1934 |
Night of the Long Knives - Hitler uses the SS to purge SA of ambitious and dangerous leaders |
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2nd August 1934 |
Hindenburg dies - The Army swears an oath of allegiance to Hitler, who makes himself Fuhrer |
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1935 |
The Nuremberg Laws passed - Defines who is and who isn't a Jew, Jews banned from marrying Germans, Jewish German citizenship laws revoked |
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1936 |
Remilitarization of the Rhineland (In breach of the Treaty of Versailles) |
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March 1938 |
Anschluss- Hitler peacefully annexes Austria int Germany |
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September 1938 |
Munich Agreement - Britain allows Hitler to annex Sudetenland |
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October 1938 |
Germany occupies Sudetenland |
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8th November 1938 |
Kristallnacht - Jewish owned shops and synagogues vandalized and attacked by Nazis |
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1939 |
Membership of the Nazi Youth Movement becomes compulsory for all young people |
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March 1939 |
Hitler invades the Czech Republic (In breach of the Munich agreement) |
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August 1939 |
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed, Hitler and Stalin agree not to attack one another |
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September 1939 |
Germany invades Poland - Britain and France declare war on Germany - WWII begins |
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1941 |
Germany invades USSR, breaking Nazi-Soviet Pact |
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1942 |
'Final Solution' to the 'Jewish Question' agreed at Wannsee Conference |
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1942 - 1943 |
War turns against, losses at Stalingard and El Alamein, civilian morale declines & food shortages |
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1943 |
Leaders of the White Rose Movement executed in clamp down against dissent at home |
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1944 |
July Bomb plot against Hitler |
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1945 |
Hitler commits suicide
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