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WW1 ends
Germany had formally surrendered on November 11, 1918, and all nations had agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated. -
German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party) is formed
The DAP was founded in Munich in the hotel "Fürstenfelder Hof" on January 5, 1919 by Anton Drexler.[1] It developed out of the Freier Arbeiterausschuss für einen guten Frieden (Free Workers' Committee for a Good Peace) league, a branch of which Drexler had founded in 1918. -
Treaty of Versailles
On June 28, 1919, Germany and the Allied Nations (including Britain, France, Italy and Russia) signed the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the war. -
The League of Nations is formed
The founders of the League of Nations were desperate to avoid a the horrors of the Great War. The main aims of the organisation
-Peace through cooperation between nations
-Justice and diplomacy governed world conflicts, not war and violence
- Paralyze Naval Services -
Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party
Hitler joined the party the year it was founded and became its leader in 1921. Hitler came to the top because he said he would break the treaty which is what the people wanted. -
Hyperinflation hits Germany
Hyperinflation probably happened because the Weimar government printed banknotes to pay reparations and - after the 1923 French invasion - the Ruhr strikers. Because these banknotes were not matched by Germany's production, their value fell. -
Wall Street crashes (the Great Depression begins)
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. Unsold goods were pilling up, slowing down the production, At the same time, stock prices continued to rise, and by the fall of that year had reached levels that could not be justified by anticipated future earnings. -
The Enabling act is passed
The Enabling Act was a 1933 Weimar Constitution amendment that gave the Adolf Hitler the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag.The Enabling Act, law passed by the German Reichstag in 1933 that enabled Adolf Hitler to assume dictatorial power. -
Hitler is appointed chancellor of germany
On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany -
Reichstag fire
The Reichstag fire was an arson attack from the Nazis on the Reichstag building (German parliament) in Berlin on 27 February 1933. -
The Nuremburg Laws are introduced
At the annual party rally held in Nuremberg in 1935, the Nazis announced new laws which institutionalized many of the racial theories prevalent in Nazi ideology. The laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or related blood." -
Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
In 1936 Hitler boldly marched 22,000 German troops into the Rhineland, in a direct contravention of the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler offered France and Britain a 25 year non-aggression pact and claimed 'Germany had no territorial demands to make in Europe'. -
The Munich Agreement
The Munich Agreement was an agreement between France, Italy, Nazi Germany and Britain. After Germany invaded the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, the British and French prime ministers tried to get Hitler to agree not to use his military in the future in return for the land he had taken. Hitler agreed. -
Kristallnacht
Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, also called the “Night of Broken Glass,” some 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. -
Hitler invades Czechoslovakia
On this day, Hitler’s forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia–a nation sacrificed on the altar of the Munich Pact, which was a vain attempt to prevent Germany’s imperial aims. On September 30, 1938, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact, which sealed the fate of Czechoslovakia, virtually handing it over to Germany in the name of peace -
Hitler invades Poland
1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. Simultaneously, the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. -
Britain and France declare war on Germany
Hitler declined to respond.On September 3, Prime Minister Chamberlain went to the airwaves to announce to the British people that a state of war existed between their country and Germany. World War II had begun.
