Gcse Nazi Germany History Dates 1918-1945

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11th November 1918

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Armistice signed - Fighting stops on the Western Front

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January 1919

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Spartacist Uprising - Put down by the Weimar Provisional Govenment with the Freikorp's support

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28th June 1919

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Treaty of Versailles signed

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11th August 1919

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Birth of the Weimar Republic

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1920

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Kapp Putsch - Defeated by striking Berlin workers

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1921

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Germany starts paying reparations

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1922

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Germany temporarily stop paying reparations

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1923

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- 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

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Dawes Plan - Ends Hyperinflation

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1924 - 1929

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Golden Age of the Weimar Republic- Enjoyed by urban middle class, but traditional Germans disproved of its culture

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1925

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Locarno Treaties -Germany agrees to its Western borders

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1926

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Germany Joins the League of Nation - The result of the signing of the Locarno Treaties

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1929

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- 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

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The Wall Street Crash - Start of the Great Depression

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30th January 1933

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Hitler is appointed Chancellor

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27th February 1933

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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

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Reichstag Elections - Nazis just short of majority

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24th March 1933

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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

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Night of the Long Knives - Hitler uses the SS to purge SA of ambitious and dangerous leaders

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2nd August 1934

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Hindenburg dies - The Army swears an oath of allegiance to Hitler, who makes himself Fuhrer

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1935

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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

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Remilitarization of the Rhineland (In breach of the Treaty of Versailles)

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March 1938

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Anschluss- Hitler peacefully annexes Austria int Germany

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September 1938

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Munich Agreement - Britain allows Hitler to annex Sudetenland

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October 1938

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Germany occupies Sudetenland

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8th November 1938

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Kristallnacht - Jewish owned shops and synagogues vandalized and attacked by Nazis

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1939

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Membership of the Nazi Youth Movement becomes compulsory for all young people

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March 1939

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Hitler invades the Czech Republic (In breach of the Munich agreement)

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August 1939

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Nazi-Soviet Pact signed, Hitler and Stalin agree not to attack one another

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September 1939

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Germany invades Poland - Britain and France declare war on Germany - WWII begins

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1941

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Germany invades USSR, breaking Nazi-Soviet Pact

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1942

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'Final Solution' to the 'Jewish Question' agreed at Wannsee Conference

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1942 - 1943

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War turns against, losses at Stalingard and El Alamein, civilian morale declines & food shortages

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1943

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Leaders of the White Rose Movement executed in clamp down against dissent at home

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1944

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July Bomb plot against Hitler

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1945

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Hitler commits suicide