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Main events in Germany 1918-45
Cards in this deck (18)
- 11918-End of the First World War
-Abdication of the Kaiser
-Armistice signed in November - 21919-Treaty of Versailles signed in June
-Weimar Government: Fredrick Ebert
-The Spartacists Uprising (COMMUNIST) - 31920-The Kapp Putsch (RIGHT WING)
- 41923-German government fail to pay reparations
-German workers strike
- Hyperinflation
-Munich Putsch (RIGHT WING)
-Gustav Stresemann takes over Weimar
-Invasion of the Ruhr - 51924-Introduction of the Rentenmark
-The Dawes Plan (800,000,000 mark loan) - 61925-The SS were created
-German culture began to evolve
-Germany joined the LON - 71929-The Young Plan signed (reducing reparations by 68%)
-WALL STREET CRASH
-USA recalls loans (Dawes Plan) - 81930-NSDAP (Nazi Party) receive 107 seats in the Reichstag
- 91932-Franz Von Papen becomes chancellor
-NSDAP receive 196 seats in the Reichstag
-Unemployment reaches 6 million
-Von Papen replaced by Von Schleicher - 101933-Hitler becomes Chancellor
-Reichstag Fire (blamed on communists)
-'Arrest without Trial' act passed
-Enabling act passed
-Concordant signed with the Catholic church
-Public work schemes introduced (autobahns etc..) 'Brot und Arbeit'
-Dachau concentration camp opens
-Gestapo set up by Herman Goring
-Reich church created under Ludwig Muller - 111934-Night Of The Long Knives (SA leaders murdered)
-Von Hindenburg dies
-Hitler creates the role of 'Fuhrer' and the army swear an oath of allegiance to him personally - 121935-Hitler introduces conscription for the army
- 131936-Hitler Youth membership reaches 5.4 million
- 141937-Ludwig Neimoller arrested after delivering anti-Nazi sermons
-Catholic Youth Movement made illegal - 151938-Kristallnacht (attacks on Jews and Jewish property)
- 161939-September: World War 2 begins with the German invasion of Poland
-Ghettos formed in Poland
-Hitler youth becomes compulsory - 171941-Einstazgruppen (killing squads) are used against the USSR
-The Wannsee conference establishes the 'Final Solution' to the 'Jewish Probem' - 181945-Food shortages cripple Germany
-April, Hitler commits suicide
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- Summary of the most important events each year in Germany from 1918 to 1945.
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- Kate Rogers
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