key dates!!

• November 1918 - Kaiser abdicates the throne (leaves Germany for the Netherlands)
• November 1918 - Germany signs an Armistice, bringing an end to the war
• January 1919 - The Spartacist Revolt
• 1919 - Friedrich Ebert is elected president
• June 1919 - Germany signs the Treaty of Versailles
• August 1919 - Weimar constitution is signed (introduces a much better democracy)
• March 1920 - the Kapp Putsch
• January 1923 - Occupation of the Ruhr
• 1923 - hyperinflation begins (Reichsmark becomes worthless)
• August 1923 - Gustaf Stresemann becomes chancellor and foreign minister
• November 1923 - Munich Putsch
• August 1924 - Dawes Plan
• November 1923 - Stresemann introduces a new currency: the Rentenmark
• August 1929 - Young Plan
• October 1929 - Gustaf Stresemann dies (of a stroke)
• October 1929 - Wall Street Crash
• January 1933 - Hitler appointed Chancellor (by President Hindenburg)
• February 1933 - Reichstag Fire
• July 1932 - Nazi party win 230 seats in the Reichstag making them the largest party
• 23rd March 1933 - Enabling Act passes the Reichstag (hitler gains complete authority, Germany no longer a democracy)
• April 1933 - Nazis boycott Jewish shops and businesses (SA are used to intimidate customers)
• April 1933 - Establishment of the Gestapo (official secret police of the Nazis is created by Goring)
• July 1933 - Nazis and the Catholic Church agree to sign a concordat (agreement) to leave each other alone
• June 1934 - Night of the Long Knives (Hitler removes enemies of the Nazi party)
• August 1934 - Hindenburg dies (of lung cancer) + Hitler becomes president (and chancellor)
• September 1935 - Nuremberg Laws (restrict freedom of Jews)
• Summer 1936 - Berlin Olympics (Hitler uses the olympics as propaganda)
• November 1938 - Kristallnacht (SS members destroy Jewish homes and synagogues)
• 1st September 1939 - WW2 begins (Germany invades Poland)
• 1898 - first naval law, add 7 ships (total = 19)
• 1900 - second naval law, double ships (total = 38)