Main events in Germany 1918-45

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Summary of the most important events each year in Germany from 1918 to 1945.
Kate Rogers
Flashcards by Kate Rogers, updated more than 1 year ago
Kate Rogers
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1918 -End of the First World War -Abdication of the Kaiser -Armistice signed in November
1919 -Treaty of Versailles signed in June -Weimar Government: Fredrick Ebert -The Spartacists Uprising (COMMUNIST)
1920 -The Kapp Putsch (RIGHT WING)
1923 -German government fail to pay reparations -German workers strike - Hyperinflation -Munich Putsch (RIGHT WING) -Gustav Stresemann takes over Weimar -Invasion of the Ruhr
1924 -Introduction of the Rentenmark -The Dawes Plan (800,000,000 mark loan)
1925 -The SS were created -German culture began to evolve -Germany joined the LON
1929 -The Young Plan signed (reducing reparations by 68%) -WALL STREET CRASH -USA recalls loans (Dawes Plan)
1930 -NSDAP (Nazi Party) receive 107 seats in the Reichstag
1932 -Franz Von Papen becomes chancellor -NSDAP receive 196 seats in the Reichstag -Unemployment reaches 6 million -Von Papen replaced by Von Schleicher
1933 -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
1934 -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
1935 -Hitler introduces conscription for the army
1936 -Hitler Youth membership reaches 5.4 million
1937 -Ludwig Neimoller arrested after delivering anti-Nazi sermons -Catholic Youth Movement made illegal
1938 -Kristallnacht (attacks on Jews and Jewish property)
1939 -September: World War 2 begins with the German invasion of Poland -Ghettos formed in Poland -Hitler youth becomes compulsory
1941 -Einstazgruppen (killing squads) are used against the USSR -The Wannsee conference establishes the 'Final Solution' to the 'Jewish Probem'
1945 -Food shortages cripple Germany -April, Hitler commits suicide
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