Democracy And Dictatorship Germany

• 1888

  Wilhelm II becomes Kaiser
• 1900


  Second Navel Law passed
• 1914


  WWI starts
• 1918


  WWI ends
• 1919

  Weimar Republic created and the Treaty of Versailles is signed
• 1919 - 1929


  Weimar Republic
• 1923


  Occupation of the Ruhr

  Hyperinflation
• Aug 1923

  Stresemann becomes Chancellor
• Nov, 1923

  Munich Putsch
• 1924


  Dawes Plan
• 1926

  Germany joins the League of Nations
• 1929


  Young plan

  Wall Street Crash which leads to the Depression
• 1932

  Nazi's win 230 seats in the Reichstag
• Jan 1933

  Hitler becomes Chancellor
• Feb 1933


  Reichstag fire
• March 1933

  Enabling Act passed
• July 1933

  Concordat signed with Catholic Church
• 30th Jun - 2nd July 1934


  Night of the Long Knives
• Aug 1934


  Hitler becomes Führer
• Nov. 1938


  Kristalnacht
• 1939

  WWII starts
• 1941-1945

  The Final Solution
• 1945


  Germany is defeated

  Hitler commits suicide
• When was Germany unified?

  1871
• Who elected to the Reichstag?

  Men over 25
• What did the Kaiser have control over?

  All foreign policy and military affairs. He could also make decisions unilaterally
• When did Kaiser Wilhelm II become Kaiser?

  1888
• How productive was Germany by 1913?

  They were producing more iron and steel, chemicals and electric goods and as much coal as Britain
• What is socialism?

  The idea power and wealth should be shared equally among the people. They wanted the Kaiser to share his power and more rights for workers.
• What is Weltpolitik?


  World Policy - the Kaiser's plan to turn Germany into a world power
• What did the German naval laws do?

  Between 1898-1912 taxes were raised and money borrowed to expand the army and navy to rival Britain's.
• What protest was there against WW1 in Germany?

  In 1915 500 women gathered in front of parliament and demanded their men home. In 1916 10,000 workers assembled to demand an end to the war and government
• When was the Kiel Mutiny?

  28 October 1918
• What was the Kiel Mutiny?

  German sailors refused to fight British navy in revolution against the Kaiser.
• When did the Kaiser abdicate?

  9th November 1918
• Who became leader after the Kaiser abdicated?

  Friedrich Ebert, the leader of the SDP
• When did Germany surrender?

  11th November 1918
• What was the impact of war on soldiers?

  Many felt Germany could have won the war. They felt betrayed by the November Criminals who ended it.
• What was the impact of war on ordinary people?

  Some factory owners made a fortune but workers had wages capped. Women worked in factories which many though wrong. Germany became politically unstable. It left 2mn children without fathers and 600,000 war widows.
• Who were the Spartacists?

  A group of radical socialists who wanted a revolution like the Russians.