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• The Armistice of World War I was signed on the date 11th November 1918.
• The death toll of German troops in World War I was 2 million.
• More than 750,000 Germans died due to food shortages in WWI.
• The ruler of Germany before the end of WWI was Kaiser Wilhelm II.
• Kaiser Wilhelm II fled to Holland in 1918, on 10th November, the day before the armistice.
• The new government put in place after WWI in Germany was called the Weimar Republic.
• The first president of the Weimar Republic was Friedrich Ebert.
• The army felt betrayed by the Weimar Government for signing the Armistice and so called them the ‘November Criminals’ and thus began the German ‘Dolschtoss’, or in English ‘stab in the back’ myth.
• The Weimar Republic was officially established in August 1919.
• The Treaty of Versailles was signed on the 28th June 1919, officially ending WWI.
• Germany lost 13% of its European territory in the Treaty of Versailles.
• The left wing uprising in January 1919 in Berlin was called the ‘Spartacist Uprising’.
• The right wing uprising in Berlin in 1920 was the ‘Kapp Putsch’.
• The right wing extremist group of 250,000 ex-soldiers was called ’The Freikorps’.
• The economic crisis of 1923 is known as ‘Hyperinflation’.
• In 1919, a loaf of bread cost 1 mark(s). By 1923, a loaf of bread cost 200,000 billion mark(s).
• Two events that the German government printed money for were: World War 1 (1914-1918) and The Ruhr Invasion (Jan 1923).
• The Dawes Plan (1924) was a solution to hyperinflation (1923). It reduced yearly reparations from Germany to £50,000,000.
• The Young Plan (1929) was a solution to the second economic crisis in 1929. It reduced reparations from £6.6b to £2b. Payments could be made up until the year 1988.
• The Locarno Pact (1925) was an agreement between Germany, France, Italy, Belgium and Britain which resolved border issues with France, demilitarised the Rhineland, and discussed Germany joining the League of Nations.
• The Kellogg Brian’s Pact (1928) was a peace agreement between 62 nations, to prevent countries from using war as a threat.
• The years (1924-1929) were known as the ‘Golden Years’ of the Weimar Republic.
• The years (1924-1929) were known as the ‘Lean Years’ of the Nazi Party.
• In the ‘Golden Years’ (1924-1929) German art became more expressionist and political.
• German Cinema rose in the ‘Golden Years’ (1924-1929) with films such as ‘Metropolis’ by Director Fritz Lang.
• In the ‘Golden Years‘ (1924-1929) architecture in Germany changed with the Bauhaus movement.
• Hitler joined the DAP in 1919.