Gcse History-Germany Dates

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Armistice Signed

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11 November 1918

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Spartacist Uprising, led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht

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4 to 15 January 1919

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People's Government took power in Bavaria

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12 April 1919

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Kapp Putsch, led by Wolfgang Kapp

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13 March 1920

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Treaty of Versailles Signed

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21 October 1919

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Assassionation of Walter Rathenau (Jewish) after the signing of the Treaty of Rapallo (absolved USSR and Germany of all debts to each other)

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24 June 1922

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France invades the Ruhr

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11 January 1923

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Munich Beer Hall Putsch after which Hitler is imprisoned for 9 months, Mein Kampf

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9 November 1923

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Dawes Plan (gave Germany longer time to repay, 800 million gold marks lent)

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September 1924

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France withdraws From Ruhr

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July and August 1925

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Locarno Treaties (treaty of nonagression and settling in a peaceful court)

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1 December 1925

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Germany joins League of Nations

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8 September 1926

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First Nuremberg Rally is held

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July 1927

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Goebbels takes over the propaganda unit of Nazi Party

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November 1928

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Young Plan (decreased the amount Germany had to pay to 112 billion gold marks from 132 billion gold marks)

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finalized 31 August 1929, adopted January 1930

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Rohm becomes chief of staff of the SA

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January 1931

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Nazis win 230/608 seats in Reichstag

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July 1932

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Franz von Papen resigns as chancellor of Germany

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17 November 1932

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Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellr of Germany

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4 December 1932

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Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor

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30 January 1933

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Reichstag catches fire

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27 February 1933

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Nazi party fails to win majority in Reichstag (288/647)

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5 March 1933

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First Nazi Concentration camp Dachau

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20 March 1933

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Reichstag passes Enabling act, communists are arrested

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23 March 1933

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Night of Long Knives, purge of the SA

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29 June 1934

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Paul von Hindenburg dies an Adolf Hitler becomes president and chancellor (already was chancellor)

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2 August 1934

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Adolf Hitler orders German army into Austria

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12 March 1938

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Austria declared part of the German Reich

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13 March 1938

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German Army occupies the Sudetenland

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1 October 1938

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Herschel Grynzspan mortally wounds Herr von Rath, German ambassador in Paris

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9 November 1938

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Joseph Goebbels organizes Night of Broken Glass/Kristallnacht

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9 November 1938

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The German Army invades Czeckoslovakia

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15 March 1939

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Adolf Hitler demands the free city of Danzig in Poland

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21 March 1939

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Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact

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23 August 1939

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The German army invade Poland and annexes the free city of Danzig

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1 September 1939

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Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany

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3 September 1939

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Wannsee Conference, decided on Final Solution, Reinhard Heydrich

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20 Januray 1942