key dates

• 1888


  Kaiser Wilhelm II takes power
• 1898 first


  First Naval Law passed under Admiral von Turpitz
• 1898 second


  Anglo German Naval Race, dreadnoughts
• 1912


  Second Naval Law under Admiral von Turpitz
• 1914


  WW1 breaks out with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by the Black Hand Gang
• 1916


  Battle of Jutland, Germany lose, British blockade the ports resulting in starvation
• 1918 first


  Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and goes to Holland
• 1918 second


  ww1 ends
• 1919 first


  Spartacist Uprising
• 1919 second


  Treaty of Versailles signed,
• 1920


  Kapp Putsch
• 1923 first


  60,000 French and Belgian soldiers invade the Ruhr
• 1923 second


  Gustav Stresemann becomes chancellor
• 1923 (8th-9th Nov)


  Munich Putsch
• 1924 first


  Old currency burnt- rentenmark introduced
• 1924 second


  Dawes plan
• 1924 third


  grand coalition formed
• 1925


  locarno pact
• 1926


  Germany joins League of Nations
• 1928


  Kellogg-Briand Pact
• 1929 first


  Young plan
• 1929 second


  wall street crash
• 1932 first


  unemployment hits 6M
• 1932 second


  joseph goebbels appointec head of nazi propaganda
• 1932 third


  von papen appointed chancellor
• 1932 fourth


  von schleicher appointed chancellor
• 30th January 1933


  Hitler becomes chancellor
• 27th February 1933


  Reichstag Fire
• 23rd March 1933


  Enabling Act
• 30th June 1934


  Night of the Long Knives
• 19th August 1934


  Hitler becomes Fuhrer
• 1935


  Nuremberg Laws passed
• 1938


  Kristallnacht
• 1939


  Germany invades Poland beginning WWII
• 1940


  Germany uses blitzkrieg to invade france
• 1941


  Nazi invasion of USSR
• 1942


  Wannsee Conference (final solution)
• 1944


  July Bomb Plot
• 1945


  Hitler commits suicide and ww2 ends