Weimar & Nazi Germany
1918 November – The end of the First World War.
1919 Weimar Constitution established.
1919 January – the Spartacist Uprising (attempted communist take over).
1920 The Nazi Party (NASDAP) formed.
1920 Kapp Putsch – right wing enemies of the Republic occupied Berlin.
1923 January – occupation of the Ruhr by French troops.
1923 August – Stresemann became Chancellor and Foreign Minister.
1923 Hyperinflation.
1923 November – Munich Beer Hall Putsch.
1929 Young Plan.
1929 The Wall Street Crash 1924 Dawes Plan.
1932 July – Nazi Party largest single political party in the Reichstag.
1933 January – Hindenburg invited Hitler to become the Chancellor.
1933 March – the first concentration camp opened at Dachau.
1933 February – ‘Reichstag Fire’.
1933 The Gestapo (Secret Police) was set up.
1933 March – The Enabling Law passed.
1933 July – Hitler made an agreement with the Catholic Church (Concordat).
1935 The Nuremberg Laws.
1938 Kristallnacht – ‘Night of Broken Glass’.