Weimar Germany Timeline Flashcards
(28 cards)
Kaiser’s abdication
9th November 1918
Armistice
11th November 1918
Sparticicst uprising defeated by Freikorps
5th-12th January 1919
National assembly elected
19th January 1919
Treaty of Versailles signing
28th June 1919
Weimar constituion adopted
31st July 1919
Kapp Putsch
March 1920
Reparations bill set at £6.6 billion
May 1921
Massive inflation
May 1923
Rhur occupied by France, Passive resistance
January 1923
Stresemann appointed chancellor,
Passive resistance ended,
Rentenmark introduced
August 1923
Nazi ‘Beer hall’ putsch in Munich fails
8th November 1923
Dawes plan (reduced reparations) accepted by Germany
August 1924
Hindenburg elected as president
February 1925
Locarno treaties signed
October 1925
Germany joins League of nations
September 1926
Germany signs Kellogg-Briand pact
September 1928
Young plan agreed (further reduced reparations)
August 1929
Wall street crash
October 1929
Brüning appointed chancellor
March 1930
Nazis are the second biggest party in Reichstag elections
September 1930
Re-election of Hindenburg as president
April 1932
Von-Papen becomes chancellor in Reichstag election
July 1932
Nazi’s are the largest party in Reichstag
May 1932
