Timeline

• 1888 - Kaiser Wilhelm becomes Emperor of Germany.
• 1898 - Naval Race. Germany begins to explain its navy to compete with Britain‘s.
• 1914 - WW1 begins.
• November 1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates.
• November 1918 - WW1 ends.
• January 1919 - Spartacus League Revolt.
• June 1919 - Treaty of Versailles is signed.
• August 1919 - Weimar Constitution is established.
• January 1920 - American Jazz comes to Germany.
• February 1920 - Founding of the Nazi Party.
• March 1920 - Kapp Putsch.
• March 1922 - Foundation of Hitler Youth.
• January 1923 - French and Belgian troops invade the German industrial area of the Ruhr.
• 1923 - Hyperinflation.
• November 1923 - Munich Putsch.
• 1924 - Gustav Stresemann becomes Foreign Minister.
• August 1924 - Dawes Plan (US loans money to Germany)
• February 1925 - Hindenburg becomes president.
• 1926 - Germany joins League of Nations.
• February 1929 – the Young Plan is proposed.
• October 1929 - Wall Street Crash, leading to the Great Depression.
• 1930 - The Depression takes hold in Germany.
• January 1933 - Hitler appointed Chancellor by President Hindenburg
• March 1933 - Reichstag Fire leads to emergency powers being granted to Hitler
• July 1933 - Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power
• 1934 - Hindenburg dies, leaving Hitler as Germany‘s dictator.
• July 1934 - Night of the Long Knihe’s. Ernst Rohm is arrested and later shot.
• August 1936 - Summer Olympic held in Berlin.
• 1936 - Membership to the German League of Girls becomes compulsory.
• 1937 - Volkswagen car company is formed.
• 1938 - Kristallnacht. Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues attacked.
• September 1939 - Germany invades Poland, WW2 begins.
• January 1942 - Wannsee Conference. Plan created for extermination of Europe‘s Jews.
• 1942 - Death camps are set up in German occupied areas.
• April 1945 - Hitler commits suicide.
• May 1945 - surrender of Germany to Allies in WW2.