Important dates for GCSE History

November 1918- End of World War One / Armistice signed / Ebert established Weimar Republic
1. 1918 - Representation of the People Act includes a clause giving the vote to women over thirty.
  1. Early 1918 - Government introduced rationing.
    1. 1918 - Patriotic weekly journal John Bull and News of the World selling 2 million copies.
      1. November 1918 - End of War.
January 1919 - Elections took place for the first time in Germany's history.
1. February 1919 - Spartacist Uprising wanted to start Communist revolution (threat from the left)
  1. May 1919 - Treaty of Versailles
    1. 1919 - Adolf Hitler joined German Worker's Party
1920 - Kapp Putsch wanted Kaiser's dictorial style of government (threat from the right)
1. 1920 - Party announced Twenty- Five Point Programme
1921 - Reparations Bill announced - announced £6600 million to be repaid to allies. Germany paid first instalment of £50 million.
1. 1921 - Hitler removed Drexler as leader / SA also known as brownshirts set up
1922 - Germany paid nothing
1923 - Invasion of the Ruhr / Hyperinflation / Munich Putsch
1. August 1923 - A new government formed under Gustav Stresemann. He immediately called off passive resistance of the Ruhr. He called in worthless marks and replaced them with Retenmark. He also negotiated.
  1. 1923 - Munich Putsch
1925 - Locarno Treaty
1926 - Hindenburg elected President in 1926
1928 - German industry recovering well under Stresemann and achieved same levels of production as before WW1.
1924 - 1929 - Nazis in the wilderness. During this time the Nazis were a minority party. Their slow support was due to the following factors:
1. - Faliure to win over workers
  1. - Disastrous Putsch of 1923
    1. - Extreme views
      1. - Things were good under Stresemann
1929 - Wall Street Crash (triggers Great Depression)
1929 - 1933 - Rise of Hitler.
November 1932 - Nazis won 200 seats in the elections
January 1933 - Hitler became Chancellor
1. February 1933 - Reichstag Fire which lead to the Enabling Act
  1. Late 1933 - Hitler signed a Concordat with the Catholic Church.
June 1934 - Night of Long Kives
1. August 1934 - Death of Hindenburg, Hitler the becomes Fuhrer.
1935 - Hitler introduced conscription
1936 - Berlin Olympic Games / Four Year Plan announced
1938 - Kristallnacht
1939 - Hitler Youth became complusory / Food raitioning was introduced / Euthanasia programme begun.
1942 - Death Camps start
1944 - Edelweiss Pirates publically hung
1945 - Bombing of Dresden / End of WW2
February 1945 - Yalta Conference
1. April 1945 - Death of Roosevelt
  1. Early July 1945 - Allies test the atomic bomb
    1. July - August 1945 - Potsdam Conference
      1. 1945 - Stalin's armies now occupying most of Eastern Europe
        1945 - Battle between France and Japan over who should control Vietnam
1946 - Iron Curtain announced by Churchill.
1947 - Stalin set up Cominform / Truman Doctrine / Marshall Plan
1948 - Communist governments took over Czechoslovakia - Berlin Airlift begins
1949 - Berlin Airlift ends / NATO is set up.
1. 1949 - Communists took over in China and began to give help to Ho Chi Minh
1950 - USA and Britain gain control of Greece - victory.
1959 - Fidel Castro overthrew Batista as leader of Cuba
January 1961 - The USA broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba.
1. April 1961 - Bay of Pigs
October 1962 - U2 spy plane incident / "The Thirteen Days"
1. 1962 - President Kennedy sending in military personnel.
1963 - Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed between USA and USSR
1. 1963 - Diem overthrown by his own army leaders / Kennedy assassinated - Johnson took over.
1954 - France controlled most of Vietnam.
1955 - USA backed Ngo Dinh Diem to set up the Republic of South Vietnam. Gave him $1.6 billion.
1960 - National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (Viet Cong)
1964 - Golf of Tonkin incident.
1965 - 1972 US tactics:
1. - Bombings -Operation Rolling Thunder (1965)
  1. - Chemical Weapons
    1. - Search and Destroy
1965 - 1972 Viet Cong and guerrilla tactics:
1. - Ambushes
  1. - Booby traps
    1. - Ho Chi Minh trail
      1. Retreat when enemy attacks then attack when enemy tires
1968 - Tet Offensive / My Lai Massacre
1. Late 1968 - Nixon elected President. Peace talks and negotiations begin.
1969 - 1971 - Policy of Vietnamisation. Almost 400,000 troops left Vietnam.
1970 - Nixon began Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
1974 - Nixon Watergate Scandal - Nixon forced to resign
1975 - South Vietnam fell to Communist forces
1899 - 1902 - Boer War
1900 - Germany and USA taken over Britain as leading industrial nation
1901- Rowntree published his book called Poverty: A study of town life
1906: Rise of Socialism
1. 1906 - Free School Meals Act passed.
1908 - Lloyd George becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer
1. 1908 - Children and Young Person's Act
  1. 1908 - Pensions Act
    1. 1908 - Mass Hyde Park Rally over 25,000 attended and Votes for Women launched
1909 - Government set up own labour exchanges.
1. 1909 - Imprisoned Suffragettes start hunger strikes.
1911 - National Insurance Act
1. 1911 - 'Women's Coronation Procession'. 40, 000 women attended and marched for 7 miles.
1913 - Labour exchanges producing 3,000 people into jobs everyday.
1. 1913 - Militant bomb and arson campaigners express widespread fury.
1897 - National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) is formed.
1903 - Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) forms
1905 - Militant campaign begins.
1907 - Women's Freedom league (WFL) is formed.
1910 Black Friday, 300 WSPU Suffragettes' protested. 200 women were assaulted.
1912 - Wild period begins: aeson attackes, acid on golf courses, letter boxes. Telephone wires cut. Mass window-smashing.
1914 - NUWSS declares c0-operation with the government.
1. 1914 -Defence of the Realms Act passed (DORA)
1914 - 1918 - Women's Extensive Involvment in War
1915 - First major problems started to emerge - "munitions crisis"
1916 - Over 2 million had signed up to the army
1. November 1916 - Government allowed journalists to be at the front.
April 1917 - Britain had only 6 weeks of wheat supply left.
1. 1917 - Women's Land Army set up
  1. November 1917 - Government introduced laws to control the price of bread 'Ninepenny Loaf'
Key :
1. Germany 1918 - 145
  1. Hitler and the Nazi's
    1. Cold War 1945 - 1975
      1. Cuban Missile Crisis 1959 - 1963
        Vietnam War 1945 - 1975
        Liberal Reforms
        Suffragettes
        World War One

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