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Weimar Germany Timeline 1918 - 1936Date Event Notes / Effect
February 1918 - Spanish Influenza pandemic. Global struggle at the time,
April 1920 Deaths 20-100 million always an underlying factor to
(estimate). Germany and other countries in
chaos.
11th November 1918 Armistice signed between
Germany and the Allies, end
of World War One
Late November 1918 Women given the right to vote
in the first week of the new
Republic
6th January 1919 The Spartacist Revolt - A Caused by Ebert sacking
left-wing uprising Eichhorn, the police chief who
was popular with the workers.
Workers went on strike to
undermine the government.
16th January 1919 Communist left wing rebellion Freikorps = demobilised soldiers
was suppressed by the with weapons.
Freikorps
February 1919 DAP founded in Munich by Early supporters: Hermann
Drexler Goering (later became
Propaganda manager) and Ernst
Rohm (didn’t think Hitler went far
enough, ex-battlefield,
disappeared in 1934 after the
Night of Long Knives).
28th June 1919 Treaty of Versailles was Mostly hated by the Germans,
signed especially NSDAP. Clause 231 -
war guilt. Army limited to 100,000
men.
31st July 1919 National assembly agreed a
new constitution - the Weimar
Republic
19th September Hitler joins the DAP Initially to spy on movements and
1919 report back (German police were
keeping an eye on extremist
views), but later became
spokesperson for the media.
January 1920 Hitler becomes head of DAP First he was a spokesperson to
party propaganda and DAP the media, but later was a leader
, becomes the NSDAP because of his impressive oratory
skills. Hitler spread myth of
Dolchstoss, army was betrayed,
democracy is weak and
anti-semitism rhetoric.
February 1920 Hitler and Drexler write the Attracts people because it tells
NSDAP’s Twenty-Five point them what to expect in a party
programme. and that they are serious about
getting into power. Every political
party needs a manifesto. Appeals
to ex-soldiers (later Freikorps)
and they tell each other - a
movement begins. Most of the
early development of the NSDAP
happened in Bavaria.
March 1920 The Kapp Putsch - A left-wing The Weimar Republic fled and
uprising. Led by Freikorps, asked for a general strike, the
only successful for 4 days. workers responded and this
paralysed the Kapp regime. Kapp
fled and the Weimar Republic
was reinstated.
December 1920 NSDAP buys a newspaper,
their views are spreading
across Germany.
July 1921 Hitler becomes leader of the Elected leader on strength of his
NSDAP speech (oratory).
August 1921 Hitler creates the Strengthens the image of the
SA/Brownshirts NSDAP to have a private army.
Also a form of violence against
(Sturmabteilung) = SA communists.
December 1922 Germany fails to send coal to
France from the Ruhr
coalfields.
January 1923 The French and Belgians sent Ruhr contained 80% of
troops into the Ruhr, arrested Germany's coal, iron and steel
German workers and took reserves.
industrial machinery.
August 1923 President Ebert appoints
Stresemann as his new
chancellor/foreign secretary.
October 1923 Peak of hyperinflation. Government printed more money
in order to support the workers on
strike in the Ruhr against the
French.
November 1923 Stresemann created a new Value was tied to the price of gold
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