Timeline

• 1888:Kaiser Wilhelm II becomes emperor of Germany
• Novemeber 1918:Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and WW1 ends
• 1898:Naval race (Germany expands its naby to compete with Britains)
• 1914:WW1 starts
• January 1919:Spartacus league revolt
• June 1919:Treaty of Versailles is signed
• August 1919:Weimar constitution is established
• January 1920:American jazz music comes to Germany
• February 1920:Founding of the Nazi party
• March 1920:Kapp Putsch
• January 1923:Invasion of the ruhr and hyperinflation
• November 1923:Munic Putsch
• August 1924:Dawes plan-US loans money to Germany
• March 1922:Foundation of Hitler youth
• February 1925:Hindenburg becomes president
• January 1926:Germany joins the league of nations
• February 1929:Young plan is proposed
• October 1929:Wall street crash which leads to the great depression
• 1933:Hitler is named chancellor; after Hindenburg's death in 1934 Hitler becomes Geramny's dictator
• June 1934:Night of the long knives
• August 1936:Membership of the league of German girls becomes compulsory
• November 1938:Kristallnacht-Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues are attacked
• September 1939:Germany invades Poland-WW2 begins
• January 1942:Wannsee conference-Nazi leaders informed of plan to kill all Jews in Europe and death camps are set up in German occupied areas
• April 1945:Hitler commits suicide
• May 1945:Surrender of Germany to allies in WW2