Timeline Flashcards
(119 cards)
1
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Start of WW1
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1914
2
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Treaty of Versailles signed.
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28th June 1919
3
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Prince Max asks for an Armistice.
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3rd October 1918
4
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Bavaria attempts to break from Germany and declare itself a republic.
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8th November 1918.
5
Q
Council of People’s Representatives set up.
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10th November 1918
6
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KPD Set up
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December 1918.
7
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DVP developed from older, national liberal groups.
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1919
8
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SPD split to form USPD and SPD.
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1917
9
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The Weimar Constitution is passed by the National Assembly.
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31st July 1919
10
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Stresemann is chancellor
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1923
11
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Marx of Centre Party is Chancellor.
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1923-1925
1926-28
12
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Nazis and Communists increase in support in Weimar Republic.
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1928
13
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The Wall Street Crash
A
1929
14
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Hindenburg grudgingly grants Hitler chancellery.
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30th January 1933
15
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US joins WW1
A
October 1917
16
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Reparations fixed to 132,000 million gold marks.
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1921
17
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The Revolution from Below starts via naval rebellions.
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28th October 1918
18
Q
End of WW1 and the signing of the armistice by Erzberger.
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11th November 1918
19
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First elections of the Weimar Republic.
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19 January 1919.
20
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The Sparticist Revolt
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January 1919
21
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Social Democrats (SPD) are the largest party in the Reichstag during the Weimar era.
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1919-1929.
22
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Ebert elected first President of the Wiemar Republic.
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11th February 1919
23
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Economic Recovery from hyperinflation.
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1924-1929.
24
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Stresemann is foreign minister.
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1923-1929
25
Support for Extremist parties reduces in Weimar Republic.
May-December 1924
26
Hindenburg elected President.
1925
27
Hindenburg and Hitler stand for presidency.
April 1932
28
Hitler is in complete control of the political system.
August 1934
29
The Reichstag Fire
27th February 1933
30
The Enabling Act/ Law for the removal of the Distress of the People and Reich.
24th March 1933
31
Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
7th April 1933
32
Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich
30th January 1934
33
Hitler sets up the People’s Court to try treason.
24th April 1934
34
President Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Fuhrer and head of the armed forces. Army swear oath to him.
2nd August 1934
35
Hitler and Hindenburg open new Reichstag together at Potsdam Garrison Church.
21 March 1933.
36
The Ribbentrop department is set up
1934
37
Gestapo taken over by Himmler’s SS
1936
38
Ministerial Council for the Defence of the Reich disbanded.
November 1939
39
The Decree for the Implementation of Total War Mobilisation
August 1944
40
USA joins WW2
December 1941
41
Hitler and his mistress commit suicide.
30th April 1945
42
Decree for the Protection of the People and the State.
28th February 1933
43
Lander stripped of their power by Hitler.
31st March 1933
44
The discussion of laws by the cabinet are no longer needed, just written approval.
20th July 1933
45
Hitler dissolves the Reichsrat.
14th February 1934
46
The Night of the Long Knives.
30th June 1934
47
Hitler is confirmed as Fuhrer by plebiscite.
19 August 1934
48
All political parties are banned except the Nazis, making Germany a one part state.
14th July 1933
49
Gestapo set up.
26th April 1933
50
Ministerial Council for the Defence of the Reich set up.
30th August 1939
51
Gauleiters begin to become increasingly powerful
1942
52
Germany invades the USSR in operation Barberossa (WW2)
22th June 1941
53
Allies land in Normandy
June 1944
54
Germany sign the surrender for WW2
7th May 1945
55
Allies hold a conference at Potsdam for the reconstruction of Germany.
17 July – 2nd August 1945
56
KPD is re-established in Germany after being banned by Hitler.
11th June 1945
57
The CDU and CSU are formed.
1945
58
Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland become communist states.
1945-1947
59
Marshall Plan Set Up
1947
60
FRC announce its constitution; the basic law.
23rd May 1949
61
First elections to the Bundestag of the FRG
14th August 1949
62
GDR announce its constitution.
7th October 1949
63
Ardenauer controls foreign and domestic policy as chancellor and foreign minister.
1949-1955
64
Ardenauer manages to make FRG coalitions work.
1949-1957
65
Ardenauer makes it harder for smaller parties to gain seats in the Reichstag. X2
1953
| 1957
66
KPD are declared unconstitutional
1956
67
Scandalous Bundestag report names 4 ex-nazis in the foreign ministry.
1952
68
Political parties reintroduced to Germany after they were banned by Hitler.
Early June 1945
69
SPD reintroduced into Germany after being banned by Hitler.
15th June 1945
70
Liberal groups join together to create the FDP
1947
71
KPD and SPD join together to form a single party; SED
April 1946
72
Parliamentary Council set up
1st September 1948
73
Basic Law is ratified
16-22 May 1949
74
Bundestag first meets in Bonn
7th September 1949
75
Ardenauer is chancellor.
1949-1963
76
CDU/CSU are majority in the bundestag
1949-1968
77
Ardenauer sets out his agenda in the bundestag.
20th April 1949
78
SRP are banned by Ardenauer.
1952
79
Article 131 added to basic law , allowing Nazis to work in the civil service.
11th May 1951
80
BHE wins enough seat to be part of a coalition government.
1953
81
FRG begins to establish its own army.
1955
82
The supreme court rules a government-controlled tv station is unconstitutional.
28th February 1961
83
Erhard is chancellor.
1963-1966
84
Erhard tries to introduce a budget which includes heavy taxation.
1966
85
Government is an SPD/FDP alliance
1969-1982
86
Several significant FDP members join the CDU
October 1970
87
Brandt calls an early election.
November 1972
88
Brandt resigns
24th May 1974
89
Constructive vote of no confidence forces Schmidt to resign.
1st October 1982
90
Kohl calls early elections
6th March 1983
91
US airbase in Rein Mein and Frankfurt airport are bombed by terrorists.
1985
92
East Germany relaxes travel restrictions and Austria abolishes visa requirements.
1st January 1989
93
FRG announces the lifting of travel restrictions.
9th November 1989
94
Ardenauer tries to set up a government-controlled tv station.
January 1961
95
Der Spiegel publishes an article criticising the performance of German troops in NATO exercise, leading to the journalists arrest.
October 1962
96
Kiesenger is chancellor.
1966-1969
97
SPD and CSU vote to introduce an emergency law.
28th June 1968
98
Brandt becomes chancellor.
1969
99
Several SPD members join the CDU
March 1952
100
One of Brandt’s advisers is discovered to be a GDR spy
1974
101
Helmut Schmidt wins elections due to no viable CDU candidate.
1976 and 1980
102
The Green Part is set up.
July 1978
103
The republicans set up.
1983
104
Hungary opens up boarders to the west and relaxes travel restrictions.
1989
105
Hungary allows East Germans to cross any boarder.
September 1989
106
Dawes plan
1924
107
Young Plan
1929
108
Sparticists, members of USPD and local union officials unite to overthrow the government, taking over key buildings.
6th January 1919
109
Individuals attempt to take over Thuringaria
1921
110
Munich Putsch
8th November 1923
111
Leaders of Red Shock Troop arrested.
December 1933
112
Members of the Anti-Fascist Worker’s group arrested.
1944
113
Von Dohnanyi and Bonhoeffer arrested and sent to concentration camps.
1943
114
The Nazi 25 point programme
1920
115
Nazis imprison bishops Meiser and Wurm
October 1934
116
CDU become the largest party in the Bundestag.
August 1949
117
Viva Maria is released.
December 1965
118
Police shoot student Benno Ohnesorg during demonstrations over human rights in Iran.
1967
119
The last major demonstration against the emergency law.
11th May 1968
