1917, April: USPD radicals break from SPD.
1918, October 3: Kaiser Wilhelm II appoints Max von Baden as
Chancellor.
1918, November 3: Kiel Mutiny begins. Sailors refuse to execute
orders for a naval attack against a British fleet. They would later join
the greater German Revolution.
1918, November 9th: Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates.
1918: The ‘Stab-in-the-back’ myth begins.
1918, November 9th: Philipp Scheidemann declares the Republic
from the Reichstag balcony.
1918, November 10: Ebert-Groener Pact. Taken out to strengthen
the military and police force.
1918, November 11th: Armistice signed, ending World War I.
1918, November 15th: The Stinnes-Legien Agreement forms a
stronger bond between industrialists and trade unions.
1918, December: Elections for the Weimar National Constituent
Assembly.
1919, January 5-12th: Spartacist Uprising. 100,000 workers joined.
Luxemburg and Liebknecht had over 400,000 members and 33 daily
newspapers.
1919, February 6th: Weimar National Assembly convenes in
Weimar.
1919, February 11: Friedrich Ebert elected President by the National
Assembly. (He has a term of 7 years)
, 1919, April 6th: Red Bavaria - Soviet Republic is declared in Bavaria,
only to be suppressed by the Freikorps in May. (1000 were killed
and normal government was re-established)
1919, June 28: Treaty of Versailles signed. TRAWL.
1919, August 11: Weimar Constitution is signed by Ebert. (All
Germans over 20 could vote)
1920: UPSD is disbanded.
1920, March 13: Kapp Putsch begins. General Luttwitz and
Wolfgang Kapp march towards Berlin with 2 disbanded Freikorps
units of 12,000 men, representing the Fatherland Party. - Ehrhardt
Marine Brigade and Baltikum are the disbanded units.
1920: Formation of the National Socialist German Workers' Party
(NSDAP).
1921: Formation of the SA (Sturmabteilung).
1921, April: Reparation amount set at 132 billion gold marks.
1922, April 16: Germany and Soviet Russia sign the Treaty of
Rapallo. Economic and political peace. Germany would be able to
produce weapons and train in Russia, bypassing TOV. Russia could
see Western technology.
1923, January: French and Belgian troops occupy the Ruhr.
1923, September 26: Stresemann becomes Chancellor in August,
calls off passive resistance in the Ruhr. (The Stresemann era of
stability begins.)
1923, November: Hyperinflation peaks in Germany.
1923: The Nazi Newspaper “Volkischer Beobachter” is created. This
is the only newspaper to remain after 1933.
