Weimar and Nazi Germany key dates

Germany enters ww1 in alliance with Austria Hungary against Britain, France and Russia

Germany defeats Russia but defeated on Western front

Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates- new republic

New government signs armistice to end war on Western Front

Spartacist Uprising in Berlin suppressed by army and Freikorps

Germany forced to accept Treaty of Versailles

Reichstag approves new constitution of German Republic

Kapp Putsch in Berlin attempts to overthrow government

NSDAP established

Hitler becomes leader of NSDAP

SA established

Murder of Walter Rathenau

Treaty of Rapallo with USSR

Hyperinflation in Germany

Franco-Belgian occupation of the Ruhr to compensate for reparations

Munich Putsch led by Hitler in beer hall

Hitler sentenced to 5 years in prison for putsch

Dawes plan

Hitler released from prison

Start of economic recovery

Hindenburg elected president

Mein Kampf published

SS established

Germany join League of Nations

Young plan

Wall Street crash- collapse of economy and unemployment

Collapse of the Grand Coalition

NSDAP gain election support

Hitler loses in presidential election to Hindenburg

NSDAP 2nd largest Reichstag party

NSDAP loses votes

Hitler appointed Chancellor

Reichstag fire

NSDAP gain 44% of vote

Enabling Act

Law for the Re-establishment of Civil Service

Boycott of Jewish Businesses

Trade unions banned and replaced with German Labour Front

All non-Nazi parties banned or voluntarily disbanded

Nazi regime and Catholic Church sign a concordat

Protestant Confessional Church established as breakaway group from official Evangelical Church

SA purged in Night of the Long Knives

Death of Hindenburg means Hitler becomes president and chancellor under title Fuhrer

Hitler announces start of rearmament programme

The Nuremberg Laws

German troops enter the demilitarised Rhineland

Law for incorporation of German Youth- Hitler Youth official education movement

Olympic games held in Berlin

Four year plan introduced with Goering in charge

Himmler in charge of SS, SD and Gestapo

Encyclical letter from Pope criticises repression of Catholic Church in Germany

Hitler purges army leadership to increase control of military

Germany annexes Austria in the Anschluss

Germany gains control over Sudeton area of Czechoslovakis after negotiations with Britain, France and Italy at Munich

Jewish passports stamped with 'J'

Jewish homes, property, synagogues destroyed in Reichkristallnacht

Germany occupies rest of Czechoslovakia

RSHA established to bring all police forces under SS control

Membership of Hitler Youth compulsory

Nazi- Soviet pact agrees to divide Poland between them

Rationing of some key foods begins

German forces invade Poland and WW2 starts

Start of ghettoisation in Poland

Euthanasia programme approved

First gassing of mentally ill

Germany invades Denmark and Norway

Germany invades Holland, Belgium and France

France defeated

Madagascar plan proposed

Warsaw ghetto sealed

German forces invade USSR

Einsatzgruppen deployed behind Eastern Front

Authanasia programme halted

German declaration of war on USA

Wannsee conference

Total War measures implemented in Germany

Opening of Sobibor death camp

Mass deportations of Jews from Western Europe to Auschwitz

German Gypsies deported to Auschwitz

Defeat of German army at Stalingrad marks decisive turning point of the war

Start of sustained bombing campaign against German cities by British and Americans

Warsaw ghetto uprising

Allied forces open second front in west with D- Day landings

Mass deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz

Attempt to assassinate Hitler by army officers in Bomb Plot fails

Start of the death marches

Soviet forces enter Germany from East

Liberation of Auschwitz and other camps

British and American forces enter Germany from West

Hitker commits suicide