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Start of the Spartacist Uprising
Germany was in the middle of a post-war revolution, and the two paths forward were social democracy or a council/soviet republic similar to the one which had been established by the Bolshevik Party in Russia. -
Treaty of Versailles signed
It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers -
German Workers' Party (DAP)
German Workers' Party (DAP) changed its name to National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDP) called the Nazi Party for short. During its first meeting a 25 point programme was announced -
Beer Hall Putsch
The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch,[1] and, in German, as the Hitlerputsch or Hitler-Ludendorff-Putsch, was a failed coup attempt by the Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler — along with Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff and other Kampfbund leaders — to seize power in Munich, Bavaria, during 8–9 November 1923 -
Dependency is created
A pay plan between Germany and the United States was set up. This created a stable economy in Germany and many other countries, as the U.S. was giving out loans. However, it also created economic dependancy on the U.S. for the countries recieving loans. -
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Great Depression
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Riechstag fire
Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch council communist, was caught at the scene of the fire and arrested for the crime -
Enabling Act
The German Reichstag Passes the Enabling Act The Enabling Act gives Hitler the power to issue decrees with the status of law -
Unemployment not in Hitler's plan
Adolf hitler makes plan for unemployed people to work under the governent. -
The automobile and Hitler
Hitler took an avid intrest in the automobile and believed every German household should have one. Hitler planed to make the Volkswagen, "the people's car." He enlisted German's top companies to build it but his idea fell short when he converted the car factory to a militiary weapons plant. -
Hitler became head of state
President Hindenburg died. Hitler combined the post of President and Chancellor and called himself Fuhrer. -
Re-occupation of the Rhineland
Hitler unilaterally canceled the military clauses of the treaty and in March 1936 denounced the Locarno Pact and began remilitarizing of the Rhineland. -
Munich Agreement
Allies agreed that Germany could have the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia in return for peace -
Anglo-Polish Common Defence Pact
This agreement offered mutual military assistance in the event that one country was attacked by another European country. A clause was added specifying that the assistance would only be offered if the invaded country's army fought against the aggressor. -
Britain and France declared war on Germany
