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Presidents Wilsons 14 Points proclaimed, when the 14 points were announced Wilson’s allied colleagues were doubtful of the application of the 14 points, the 14 points were announced before the armistice of Germany and was most likely the main reason for their surrender.
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Hindenburg and Ludendorff inform the Kaiser that Germany had lost the war and should begin looking towards an armistice urgently.
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Mutiny broke out in the German navy and this was a very key event because it led to the red flag revolution which was all working people were on strike until the Kaiser abdicated because an armistice could not be made while the Kaiser Wilhelm was still in charge this put pressure on the Kaiser Wilhelm to abdicate
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Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated allowing the armistice to be signed and world war one ended and with that the red flag revolution ended as well, later on Ebert becomes the chancellor of Germany.
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The spartacist uprising led by Liebknecht and Luxemburg was stopped by the friekorps in berlin; it was a movement in an attempt to overthrow the government but was stopped by the friekorps an army of ex-soldiers. Liebknecht and Luxemburg were both killed while in police custody.
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The German government had a meeting in Weimar Making the Weimar republic official making Ebert the first ever president of the Weimar republic and schiedemann the first ever chancellor.
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The treaty of Versailles a treaty that places many limits on Germany to ensure they could not start another war and they also have to pay reparations for all the damage they caused during the war. When the treaty is signed many Germans begin to see the Weimar republic as treaders
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Hitler joins the German workers party in Munich because they had the same goals as him.
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Leni Riefenstahl began as a dancer and then became a silent film maker
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Hitler announces the new name of the German workers party to the national socialist Germany workers party (Nazi) and outlines his planes for the future.
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Germany are failing to make reparation payments.
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French and Belgian troops march into the Ruhr Germanys largest industrial site and occupied it, German workers began passive resistance in the Ruhr leading to hyperinflation/inflation
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Chancellor Stresemann ended passive resistance against the French government in the Ruhr.
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– Leni has her first solo performance at the Munich tonhalle. She went on to perform again at berlin where she came to the attention of one of Germanys leading impresarios of the time, max Reinhardt.
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Hitler’s beer hall putsch in Munich failed; it was a plot launched by Hitler in an attempted revolution in Munich, but was easily crushed by the army and police.
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The Dawes Plan Was announced, which was an attempt in 1924 to solve the reparations problem which had bedevilled internationally politics, in the wake of the Ruhr occupation and the hyperinflation crisis.
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Leni was given a role in a film called ‘ways to strength and beauty’
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Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of Germany.
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Germany signed the Locarno treaty with France, Britain. Belgium and Italy guaranteeing its borders with France.
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Hitler was declared the leader (fuhrer) of the Nazi party
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Leni starred in the film ‘the holy mountain’ and the filmed premiered on December 1926 and it got fairly good reviews.
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Riefenstahl joined trenker and schneeberger in the film ‘the great leap’
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Riefenstahl’s career took a new change in direction as she starred in the film ‘fate of the Hapsburg’
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Hitler appoints Goebbels as the chief of the Nazi propaganda department
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Stresemann dies, Wall Street stock market collapsed, beginning the great depression.
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Brunings budget passed using article 48 which allowed the president to rule by decree at times of an emergency and gave the president the right to override the Reichstag and provide leadership above party.
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Nazis party won 107 seats in the Reichstag elections, allowing Hitler to stand for president.
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article 48 was used to govern Germany.
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Leni took on another film ‘the white frenzy’
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Leni Riefenstahl meets Hitler for the first time when she’s on tour promoting her directorial debut ‘the blue light’
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– Hitler stood for president of Germany but Hindenburg was re-elected as the president.
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Leni was preparing to sail to Greenland to film SOS iceberg but she desperately wanted to meet Hitler so she sent him letters awhile after she receives a phone call from Hitler adviser saying that hiter wants to meet up her at Wilhelmshaven the day after.
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Reichstag elections were held the Nazi party won 280 seats and became the largest party in the parliament.
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when Leni returned to Germany she began to see more and more of Hitler and other leading Nazis, Hitler visited Riefenstahl flat and she attended Hitler rally at the sports palace in November as part of the official Nazi party.
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Von Schleichers was made the chancellor
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Schleichers government fell and Hitler was appointed as the chancellor with Franz von Papen was appointed vice chancellor.
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Goebbels appointed as the propaganda minister and once again the Reichstag elections were held and the enabling act was passed which was a piece of legislation that allowed the government to take certain action like carry out specific government policies in a modern nation.
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Hitler met Leni to ask her how preparations were going for the filming of the upcoming party rally at Nuremburg
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Reichstag elections were held and unbelievably the Nazi party won every seat.
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Leni’s film ‘triumph of the will’ contains some of the most recognisable images of Hitler’s and the Nazis
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Leni began on the script of tiefland in 1934 but put it aside as she became more involved with Nazi propaganda films.
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Himmler was declared head of the gestapo the official secret police of Nazi Germany.
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Night of the long knives which was an operation in which Hitler ordered the SS and the gestapo to assassinate the leaders of the SA leading to the SS no longer being part of the SA.
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President Hindenburg dies afterwards Hitler combines offices of president and chancellor. The German army swore an oath to stay loyal to Hitler
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Germany re-introduced conscription which was against the treaty of Versailles.
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Nuremburg laws against Jews were passed which banned non-Aryans and political opponents of the Nazis from the civil-service.
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Leni’s famous film about the berlin games called ‘Olympia’ won many awards nationally and internationally.
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Leni met up with Goebbels and he suggested she make a Hitler film, in his diaries Goebbels says she was excited about this
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Germany signed a treaty with Italy a treaty of peace and friendship.
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– the Munich conference was held a conference held with the leaders of great Britain, France Germany and Italy at this conference Hitler demanded the possession of Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, British prime minister tried to talk him out of it Hitler extended his demands leading to chamberlain followed a policy called appeasement.
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Kristallnacht, night of the broken glass a night when Nazi storm troopers went around destroying Jewish homes synagogues shops and businesses about 30,000 Jews were sent to concentration camps.
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Germany occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia, and Britain and France guaranteed Poland there security.
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the soviet- Germany signs the non-aggression pact.
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Germany invaded Poland, Britain and France had enough off Germany and declare war on them
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Poland surrenders to Germany
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Jewish children were restricted into German schools and because of this the first boycott of Jewish businesses and professionals took place.