Timeline of German History - 1900-1945

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
• 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