1900-1945
- 1900 Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch comes into effect
- 1905 - 1906 First Moroccan Crisis
- 1905 Schlieffen Plan devised
- 1911 Agadir Crisis (Second Moroccan Crisis)
- 1913 Saverne Affair
- 1914 Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- 1914 - 1918 World War I
- 1918 End of ' (which favoured the rich); universal equal suffrage; women get the vote for the first time.
- 1919 Spartacist Uprising
- Ebert elected the first President of Germany
- Bavarian Soviet Republic declared and then crushed
- Treaty of Versailles
- 1919–1933 Weimar Republic
- 1920 Kapp Putsch
- Ruhr Uprising
- 1922 Treaty of Rapallo
- 1923-1925 French and Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr
- 1923 Munich Putsch by Hitler fails
- German inflation (~1921-1923)
- Gustav Stresemann becomes Chancellor and introduces Rentenmark to end hyperinflation
- 1924 Dawes Plan
- 1925 Locarno Treaties
- 1925 - Joins the League of Nations
- 1929 Young Plan
- Death of Gustav Stresemann
- Wall Street Crash marks start of Great Depression; Germany very hard hit
- Death of Gustav Stresemann
- 1930 German election, 1930
- 1933 - 1945 Nazi Germany (Third Reich)
- 1933 Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany; Gleichschaltung destroys opposition parties and non-Nazi societies
- Reichstag Fire and the subsequent Reichstag Fire Decree the next day
- Enabling Act of 1933
- 1934 Night of the Long Knives
- Death of President Hindenburg; Hitler pronounces himself Führer, adding the powers of the President
- 1935 Rearmament begins
- 1936 Re-militarisation of the Rhineland
- 1938 Anschluss with Austria
- Kristallnacht
- 1942-1945 Holocaust
- 1939 - 1945 World War II (see also Timeline of World War II)
- 1941 Konrad Zuse builds the first computer, Z3
- 1941 Wannsee Conference
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