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64 Cards in this Set
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Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates |
9 Nov 1918 |
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Armistice is signed |
11 Nov 1918 |
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Sparticist Uprising |
6 Jan 1919 |
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Ebert steps down as Chancellor (Bread 1 mark) |
13 Jan 1919 |
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Scheidemann becomes Chancellor |
Feb 1919 |
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Weimar Constitution Meeting |
Feb 1919 |
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German Worker's Party |
March 1919 |
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Treaty of Versailles signed |
26 June 1919 |
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German Worker's Party changes name to NSDAP |
24 Feb 1920 |
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Nazis 25 point programme |
25 Feb 1920 |
- "Lebensraum" - Living space could be gained, Germany should grow as a nation and occupy more land/space to look superior |
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Kapp Putsch |
3 March 1920 |
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Hitler became leader of the Nazi party |
28 July 1921 |
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-Occupation of the Ruhr -Hyperinflation -Rentenmark (temporary currency) - Bread 100,000 marks |
11 Jan 1923 |
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Stresemann becomes Chancellor |
Aug 1923 |
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Munich Beer Hall Putsch |
8-9 Nov 1923 |
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Dawes Plan |
April 1924 |
- Annual reparation fees reduced - American banks invest 800 mil marks in German Industry - French leave the Ruhr - German economy recovers |
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Rentenmark replaced with Reichmark - controlled by Reichbank |
Aug 1924 |
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Locarno Treaties |
16 Oct 1925 |
- Declaration of peace in Western Europe - Troops removed from Rhineland - Germany not dictated to |
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- Ebert dies - Hindenburg becomes president |
1925 |
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Stresemann persuades League of Nations to accept Germany |
1926 |
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Kellogg Briand Pact |
Aug 1928 |
- 65 countries in agreement that no war should be used to achieve foreign policy aims |
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100,000 members in Nazi Party |
1928 |
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Young Plan |
Aug 1929 |
- Reparations cut from £6600 mil to £1850 with 59 years to pay - 2.05 mil marks a year |
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Stresemann dies of heart attack |
3 Oct 1929 |
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Wall Street Crash |
Oct 1929 |
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- Hindenburg invokes Article 48 - SA has 400,000 members |
1930 |
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Burning becomes Chancellor |
1930 |
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Harzburg Front |
1931 |
- Alliance of parties who went against Chancellor Bruning |
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Presidential election - Hindenburg - 18 mil votes - Hitler - 11 mil votes - Communist party - 5 mil votes |
March 1932 |
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Run-off Presidential election - Hindenburg - 19 mil votes ✔ - Hitler - 13 mil votes - Communist party - 4 mil votes |
April 1932 |
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Bruning bans SA and SS |
April 1932 |
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Franz von Papen appointed Chancellor in place of Bruning |
1 June 1932 |
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Kurt von Schleicher becomes Chancellor |
3 Dec 1932 |
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Hitler becomes Chancellor and von Papen Vice Chancellor |
30 Jan 1933 |
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Reichstag Fire |
27 Feb 1933 |
- Nazis blame it on Communist party and asks Hindenburg to govern in decree of emergency |
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Party Election - Nazis win - 44% with 288 seats in coalition with DNVP and DVP |
5 March 1933 |
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Opening of Reichstag at Potsdam garrison church |
21 March 1933 |
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Enabling Act |
23 March 1933 |
- Hitler could rule without approval from the Reichstag for 4 years - made permanent - Hitler bans Communists |
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Dachau opened |
March 1933 |
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Nazis ransack and ban trade unions |
2 May 1933 |
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Law for the Encouragement of Marriage |
5 July 1933 |
- Loan given to couples when they have their first child - Nazi women - Children, kitchen and church |
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Law against formation of parties |
14 July 1933 |
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Foundation of RAD (Reich Labour Service) |
July 1933 |
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Night of the Long Knives |
30 June 1934 |
- SS shot at SA - Schleicher was killed |
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- Hindenburg dies - Hitler makes himself president |
2 Aug 1934 |
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DR Hjalmar Schacht becomes Minister for Economics and General Plenipotentiary for the war economy |
March 1935 |
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Nuremburg Laws |
15 Sept 1935 |
Jews lost: - Right to marry non-Jews - Citizenship - Right to vote/hold office govt. |
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Lebensborn Programme |
12 Dec 1935 |
- Designed for unmarried women - Donate a baby to the state by getting pregnant by SS men - Helped make Aryan race pure |
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Jews banned from being dentists, lawyers, teachers etc |
April 1936 |
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Compulsory for young Germans to attend Hitler Youth Organisations |
1 July 1936 |
Hitler Jugend (boys 10-14): - Marching, shooting, map-reading Yung Mädel (girls 10-14): - Cooking and setting up camps |
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Cap on Anti-Jew campaign for Berlin Olympics |
July-Aug 1936 |
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Secret memo of four year plan |
1936 |
- Prepares Germany for war - Went on till 1944 |
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Jews possessions were confiscated |
March 1938 |
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Jews had to carry identity cards |
July 1938 |
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Jewish men added "Israel" and women "Sarah" to their first names |
Aug 1938 |
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Jews had a red "J" stamped on their passports |
Oct 1938 |
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Kristallnacht |
9 Nov 1938 |
- Jewish businesses were attacked - Jews were arrested + put in camps - Young Parisian Jew shot a German - Hitler said if Germans wanted to take revenge they could |
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Start of WW2 |
1 Sept 1939 |
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-Living conditions - shortages of bread and meat, food went into black market - Impact of fighting - longer working hours |
1942-1945 |
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White Rose Group executed |
18 Feb 1943 |
- Hans + Sophie Scholl sent peaceful opposition leaflets - Found and executed by Gestapo |
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Himmler ordered crackdown |
1944 |
- Edelweiss Pirates beat up Hitler Youth members |
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Attempted assassination of Hitler by Clause von Stauffenberg |
20 July 1944 |
- Took bomb into Hitlers office in briefcase, but it under map reading table - Clause left to take phone call, briefcase moved Hitler mildly injured - 5,000 people arrested and executed |
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Hitler commits suicide |
30 April 1945 |
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Unconditional surrender of Germany to the Allies |
8 May 1945 |
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