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Stage 1:1918-19 German Revolution
Kaiser Wilhem ll took a train to Holland. -
Armistice Signed
Armistice signed at Le Francoport near compiegne (France), that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War between the Allies and Germany. -
Republic declared
Declaration of a Republic by Philip Scheidemann, a leader of the SPD. -
Stage 1: 1918-1919
Official abdication of the Kaiser. -
Revolt of Spartacists
The Spartacists was a group of radical socialists, led by Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht, who made a futile attempt to establish a Bolshevik-type state in Germany -
Germany Sings the Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles imposed to Germany several economic, military and territorial sanctions -
Weimar Constitution was adopted
Friedrich Ebert a member of the SDP and the provisional president of the German Reichtstag (government), sings a new constitution, officially creating the first parliamentary democracy in Germany -
Kapp Putsch
Wofgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz, was an attempted coup, which aimed to undo the German Revolution, overthrow the Weimar Republic and establish an autocratic government. -
Adolf Hitler became the leader of the Nazi Party
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Ocupation of the Ruhr
French and Belgium troops had invade the Ruhr after Germany failed to pay its reparations in 1922 -
Hyperinflation
n early 1923, German workers embarked on a prolonged general strike as a protest against the occupation of the Ruhr by French troops. Despite its parlous economic condition, the Weimar government decided to support this strike by continuing to pay striking workers. It did so by increasing print runs of banknotes, a policy the government had been using intermittently since 1921. -
Munich Putcsh
Was a failed coup d'etat by the Nazi Party -leader Adolf Hitler, along with Lunderdoff, to seize power in Munich in order to take control of the state government, march on Berlin and overthrow the German federal government. Instead, they tried to establish a new government to oversee the creation of a unified German Grand Reich where citizenship would be based on race. -
Dawes Plan
Was a plan negotiated mainly by the US, in which US loans to Germany, which introduced stability and a period of prosperity, and contributes to end hyperinflation -
Hindenburg becomes president
Paul von Hindenburg was a kind of hero of Germany, because of his dramatic victories during WW1 on the Eastern Front.
After the death of president Ebert, Hindenburg "allowed" himself to be drafted as a presidential candidate -
Locarno Pact
The Locarno Pact of 1925 was an agreement signed on 1st December 1925 between Britain, France, Belgium, Italy and Germany. Stresemann believed that through signing the Pact, it would increase confidence in Germany amongst her own people but also other European powers.
-To secure borders of the nations of Europe after the First World War.
-To ensure the permanent demilitarisation of the Rhineland.
-To begin negotiations to allow Germany into the League of Nations. -
Kellog-Briand Pact
General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy, in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve conflicts.
The signatory states were Germany, France and the US. -
Wall Street Crash and Great Depression
Prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed. -
Young Plan
Young Plan, second renegotiation of Germany’s World War I reparation payments. A new committee, met to revise the Dawes Plan of 1924. Its report (June 7, 1929), accepted with minor changes, went into effect on Sept. 1, 1930. It reduced the amount due from Germany to 121,000,000,000 Reichsmarks in 59 annuities, set up the Bank for International Settlements to handle the transfer of funds, and ended foreign controls on German economic life.
