Dates

• Proportional representation

  1919
• Spartacist uprising

  January 1919
• Kapp Putsch

  1920
• Ruhr Invasion + Hyperinflation

  1923
• Golden age

  1924 -1929
• Treaty of Versailles

  June 1919
• Gustav stresemann became president in

  1923
• Dawes plan

  1924
• Rentenmark introduced

  1923
• Germany join League of Nations

  1926
• Kellog-briand peace treaty(61 countries, don’t use war to settle aims)

  1928
• Locarno pact ( Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Belgium to protect borders)

  1925
• Young plan ( reduced reparation to £2 billion, payment extended )

  1929
• Hitlers rise to power

  1919 - 1933
• Munich Putsch

  1923
• Hitler became a member of the German workers party

  1919
• Hitler renamed party as Nazis

  1920
• Hitler set up SA

  1921
• Hitler leader of Nazi party

  1922
• Wilderness years ( lowest point of Nazis and Hitler)

  1924-1929
• Nazi party relaunched

  1925
• Nazi party banned

  1923
• Mein kampf published

  1925
• Bamberg conference (asserting control and power in the party)

  1926
• Wall Street crash

  1929
• Great Depression

  1929 - 1933
• Backstairs intrigue

  1932-1933
• Chancellor Brüning resign

  may 1932
• Von Papen made chancellor

  30 may 1932
• Von Schleicher made chancellor

  December 1932
• Hitler made chancellor

  january 1933
• Reichstag fire

  27 February 1933
• Enabling Act

  March 1933
• Political opponents banned

  May - July 1933
• Night of the long knives

  June 1934
• Nazis win more seats in election

  March 1933
• Hindenburg dies + army oath + Hitler become dictator

  august 1934
• Reich chamber of culture ( control all art and culture)

  1933
• Berlin Olympics game

  1936
• Concordat signed ( agreement with Hitler and the church)

  June 1933