Weimar 1918-1933 dates Flashcards
(41 cards)
Formation of the Weimar constitution
November 1918
Ebert-Groener Pact ensures support from the army for the Weimar system
November 1918
Founding of the Bauhaus movement by Walter Gropius
1919
Introduction of agitprop art (art which has a political message) which included artists such as Bertolt Brecht
1919
Spartacist Revolt headed by Luxembourg and Liebknecht
5-15 January 1919
First Weimar election. The SPD get 37.9% of the vote
19 January 1919
Red Bavaria uprising
April-May 1919
Treaty of Versailles settlement
May 1919
Hindenburg calls the Treaty of Versailles a ‘Diktat’ and dubs the new government the ‘November Criminals’ in front of a National Assembly
November 1919
Formation of the SA, the NSDAP paramilitary group
1920
Kapp Putsch in Berlin
March 1920
Collapse in food prices as a result of a lack of rural protection from foreign capital
1922
Ruhr Crisis
January 1923
Hyperinflation
1923
Streseman and government in power. Streseman becomes chancellor and then foreign minister in the same year
August-November 1923
Munich Putsch
8-9 November 1923
The NSDAP win 3.0% of the vote in the election of this year
December 1924
The NSDAP change their structure including the introduction of a centralised bureaucracy as well as local Gauleiter
1924
Dawes Plan
August 1924
Hindenburg elected president with 48.3% of the vote
March 1925
In this year the SPD begin a noticeable shift to the left, rejecting viable and stable coalitions due to their potential for perpetuating a bourgeois image
1925
The Locarno treaties which included a French-German non-aggression pact
December 1925
Germany enter the League of Nations
1926
The Marx government fails and has to reform in response to faltering SPD support. This government had previously taken over from a Luther minority government.
1926-1927
