Germany Timeline

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Rise and Fall of the Weimar Government (WG)

Hitler's Rise to Power (HR)

Consolidation of Hitler's Power (HP)

Nazi Germany (NG)

(WG) 1918/1919 - Treaty of Versailles signed

(WG) Jan. 1919 - Communist revolt; the Spartacists are stopped by the Freikorps

(WG) Mar. 1920 - Right-wind Kapp Putsch; stopped by workers strikes

(HR) 1921 - Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party

(WG) Jan. 1923 - France and Belgian troops occupy the Ruhr; workers go on strike in passive resistance

(WG) 1923 - Hyperinflation

(WG) Aug. to Nov 1923 - Gustav Stresemann comes to power; creates a new currency

(HR) Nov. 1923 - Munich Putsch; stopped by police and army

(WG) 1924 - Dawes Plan (US Loans; longer to pay reparations)

(WG) 1925 - Locarno Treaty (Germany allowed into League of Nations)

(WG) Jan. 1929 - Young Plan (reparations lowered)

(WG) Oct. 1929 - Death of Stresemann; Wall Street Crash

(WG) 1933 - Unemployment in Germany reaches 6 million.

(HP) Jan. 30 1933 - Hitler becomes Chancellor

(HP) Feb. 27 1933 - Reichstag Fire (Communists blamed)

(HP) Mar. 1933 - Enabling Act

(HP) May 1933 - Trade Unions banned

(HP) July 1933 - Other political parties banned

(HP) Jan. 1934 - Local governments replaced with Nazis

(HP) June 30 1934 - Night of the Long Knives (Key Nazis executed to secure power and army loyalty)

(HP) Aug. 2 1934 - Death of President Hindenburg

(NG) Nov. 9 1938 - Kristallnacht (30,000 Jewish men sent to Concentration Camps, Jewish businesses destroyed, Jews made to pay for damages - a pogrom)

(NG) Sept. 1939 - Germany invades Poland; the start of WWII

(NG) 1942 - The beginning of the 'Final Solution' to the 'Jewish Problem'

(NG) 1944 - Attempted assassination of Hitler

(NG) 1945 - Hitler commits suicide; Germany surrenders