Nazi Germany

By SimranD

  • Ludendorff conceded that Germany was defeated

  • Prince Max of Baden appointed chancellor

  • Bavaria claimed a socialist Republic

  • Kaiser's abdication, Ebert appointed Chancellor and Germany becomes a Republic

  • Armistice between Germany and Allies signed at Compiegne

  • German Communist Party founded

  • Creation of the DAP (German Workers Party) by Anton Drexler

  • Start of Spartacist Uprising [Berlin]

  • National Constituent Assembly meet at Weiman

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • Weimar Constituent adopted by the National Constitution Assembly

  • Weimar Consitution signed by President Ebert

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    From Second to Third Reich

  • DAP changes name to NSDAP (National Socialist German Worker's Party)

  • 25 Point Programme by Drexler and Hitler

  • Kapp Putsch

  • IARD fix reparations at £6600 million

  • Franco-Belgian Ruhr Occupation

  • Hyperinflation - Jan to Nov

  • Ruhr Passive Resistance

  • Stresseman made Chancellor

    Aug-Nov: Stresseman's 100 Days

  • Munich Beer Hall Putsch

  • Retenmark Introduced

  • Dawes Plan

  • Mein Kampf dictated

  • Hitler sent to Landsberg Prison

  • Hitler released

  • NSDAP re-founded in Munich

  • Hindenburg elected as President

  • Locarno Conference

  • Bamberg Conference - Hitler's leadership of the party re-established

  • Muller Grand Coalition

  • Hugenburg leader of DNVP

  • Reichstag election result

  • Kellogg-Briand Pact

  • The Great Depression

  • Young Plan

  • Wall Street Crash

  • Death of Stresseman

  • Wall Street Crash

  • Resignation of Muller's government

  • Bruning appointed Chancellor

  • Young Plan approved by Reichstag

  • Reichstag Election - Nazi's are second largest party

  • Bruning's economic measures imposed by presidential drecree

  • 5 leading German banks failed

  • Formation of Harzburg Front

  • Unemployment peaks at 6.1million

  • Re-election of Hindenburg as president of Germany

  • Papen appointed Chancellor

  • Bruning resigned

  • Reichstag Election - Nazi's are the largest party in Reichstag

  • Reichstag pass vote of "no confidence" to Papen's government, 512 to 42

  • Nazi vote dropped to 33.1 from 37.3 percent

  • Papen dismissed as Chancellor and replaced by Schleicher

  • Schleicher dismissed and Hitler appointed as Chancellor

  • Reichstag Fire, Communists blamed

  • Appointment of Schacht as Reichstag President

  • Final Reichstag elections according to Weimar Constitution

  • Day of Potsdam

  • Enabling Act passed

  • First official boycott of Jewish shops and professions

  • Burning of the Books

  • Creation of the German Labour Front

  • Concordat signed with the Papacy

  • All political opposition to NSDAP (Nazi's) declared illegal

  • End of the Great Depression

  • Reich Minister of Education created: control of education was taken away from the Lander

  • Creation of the Confessional Church

  • Mass arrests by Gestapo of socialists and communists

  • Night of Long Knives (SA destroyed by SS)

  • Appointment of Schacht as Minister of Economics

  • Hindenburg dies. Hitler is both Chancellor and President. Oath of loyalty taken by the army.

  • New Plan introduced

  • Mass arrests by Gestapo of socialists and communists

  • Nuremburg Race Laws introduced

  • Appointment of Himmler as Chief of the German Police

  • Four Year Plan established under Goering

  • Papal encyclial, Mit Brennender Sorge, issued

  • Schacht resigns as Minister of Economics

  • Planned putsch by General Beck if war resulted from Czech crisis

  • Kristallnacht

  • Creation of the Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration

  • Creation of RSHA

  • German invasion of Polan

  • Britain and rance declared war

  • War Economy decrees

  • Operation Barbarossa - German invasion of the USSR

  • Bishop Galen's sermon against euthanasia

  • Rationalisation Decree issued by Hitler

  • Germany declared war on USA following Pearl Harbour - continental war globalised

  • Wannsee Conference: 'Final Solution' to exterminate the Jews

  • Red Orchestra discovered and closed down

  • Appointment of Speer as Minister of Armaments

  • Speer's reforms to mobilise the war economy

  • Military 'turn of the tide'; German defeats at El Alamein and Stalingrad

  • White Rose student group - distribution of anti-Nazi leaflets

  • German defeat at El Alamein

  • German surrender at Stalingrad

  • Goebbels' speech rallied the people for 'total war'

  • Hamburg fire-storm

  • Allied landings in Normandy

  • Stauffenberg Bomb Plot failed to overthrow regime. Army purged.

  • Peak of German munitions production

  • Execution of 12 Edelweiss Pirates in Cologne

  • German surrender: occupation and division of Germany