KEY DATES

• 1918


  Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates
• 1918


  Armistice signed
• 1919


  Spartacist uprising
• 1919


  Weimar constitution established, with Ebert as chancellor
• 1919


  Treaty of Versailles signed
• 1920


  Kapp Putsch
• 1923


  French occupation of the Ruhr
• 1923


  Stresemann becomes Chancellor and Foreign Minister
• 1923


  Munich Putsch
• 1924


  Dawes Plan
• 1925


  Mein Kampf published
• 1925


  Locarno Pact
• 1926


  Bamburg Conference
• 1926


  Membership of the League of Nations
• 1928


  Kellogg-Briand Pact
• 1929


  Young Plan
• 1929


  Wall Street Crash and start of the Depression
• 1932


  NSDAP become the largest political party in the Reichstag
• 1933


  Hitler appointed as Chancellor
• 1933


  Reichstag fire
• 1933


  Enabling Law passed
• 1933


  People asked to boycott Jewish shops
• 1933


  Gestapo is established
• 1933


  Concordat with Catholic Church
• 1934


  Night of the Long Knives
• 1934


  Death of Hindenburg and Hitler becomes Fuehrer
• 1935


  Nuremberg Laws passed
• 1936


  Berlin Olympics
• 1938


  Kristallnacht
• 1939


  Germany invades Poland and WWII begins