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1919 September, 1919
Adolf Hitler joins the German Worker's Party (GWP)
24th February,
National Socialist German Workers Party publishes its first program.
1920 1920
October, 1920
The Sturm Abteilung (SA) is formed.
9th November,
Adolf Hitler attempts Beer Hall Putsch.
1923
1923
20th December,
Adolf Hitler leaves Landsburg Prison
1924 1924
December, 1924
The Nazi Party wins 24 seats in the Reichstag.
June, 1925
The Schutz Staffeinel (SS) is formed.
1925
July, 1925
Max Amann publishes first volume of Mein Kampf.
1927 July, 1927
The Nazi Party holds its first Nuremberg Rally.
20th May, 1928
The Nazi Party wins 14 seats in the Reichstag.
1928 November, 1928
Joseph Goebbels takes over the propaganda unit in the Nazi Party.
December, 1928
Max Amann publishes second volume of Mein Kampf.
August, 1929
Over 60,000 members of the Sturm Abteilung attend Nuremberg
Rally.
1929
December, 1929
The Nazi Party has a membership of 178,000.
23rd January, 1930 Wilhelm Frick becomes the first Nazi to become a minister in a state
government.
1930
September, 1930
The Nazi Party wins 107 seats in the Reichstag
December, 1930
Unemployment in Germany reaches nearly 4 million.
1931 January, 1931
Ernst Roehm is appointed Sturm Abteilung chief of staff.
13th March, 1932
Paul von Hindenburg defeats Adolf Hitler in presidential elections.
April, 1932
The Sturm Abteilung is banned.
24th April, 1932
In Prussia the Nazi Party becomes the largest single party in the state
parliament.
16th June, 1932
Franz von Papen lifts the ban on the Sturm Abteilung
31st July, 1932
The Nazi Party wins 230 seats in the Reichstag
1932
13th August, 1932 Adolf Hitler refuses to serve under Franz von Papen as vice
chancellor of Germany.
17th November,
Franz von Papen resigns as chancellor of Germany.
1932
4th December,
Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany.
1932
30th January, 1933 Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
27th February,
The Reichstag catches fire.
1933
5th March, 1933
The Nazi Party fails to win an overall majority in the Reichstag
20th March, 1933
The first Nazi concentration camp is formed at Dachau
1933
23rd March, 1933 Reichstag passes the Enabling Bill.
31st March, 1933
Adolf Hitler uses the Enabling Bill to exclude communists from local
government
26th April, 1933
Herman Goering forms the Gestapo from the former Prussian police.
2nd June, 1933
Adolf Hitler increases the number of Nazis in his government.
1934 16th March, 1934
Adolf Hitler announces an increase in the size of the German Army.
4th April, 1934
29th June, 1934
2nd August, 1934
7th March, 1936
24th August, 1936
1936
1st November,
1936
25th November,
1936
27th February,
1937
26th April, 1937
17th October,
1937 1937
6th November,
1937
24th November,
1937
4th February, 1938
16th February,
1938
12th March, 1938
13th March, 1938
7th April, 1938
1938 12th August, 1938
29th September,
1938
1st October, 1938
9th November,
1938
9th November,
1938
21st January, 1939
15th March, 1939
21st March, 1939
1939 23rd August, 1939
1st September,
1939
3rd September,
1939
Heinrich Himmler is appointed assistant chief of the Gestapo.
The Night of the Long Knives results in the purge of the Sturm
Abteilung.
Paul von Hindenburg dies and Adolf Hitler becomes president as well
as chancellor.
The German Army enters the Rhineland.
Adolf Hitler introduces a compulsory two-year period of military
conscription.
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini agree to form a military alliance.
Germany and Japan sign an anti-Comintern pact.
France decides to extend the Maginot Line along the border with
Germany.
Guernica in Spain is bombed by the Luftwaffe.
Pro-German riots take place in the Sudetenland area of
Czechoslovakia.
Italy joins the Germany and Japan in the Anti-Comintern Pact.
Walther Funk replaces Hjalmar Schacht as German minister of
economics.
Adolf Hitler replaces Werner von Blomberg as commander of the
German Army.
Adolf Hitler orders the release of imprisoned Austrian Nazis.
Adolf Hitler orders the German Army into Austria.
Austria is declared part of the German Reich.
Francisco Franco, ruler of Spain, signs the Anti-Comintern Pact.
Adolf Hitler orders the mobilization of the German Army.
Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler sign the Munich Agreement.
German Army occupies the Sudetenland.
Herschel Grynzspan mortally wounds Herr von Rath, a German
embassy official, in Paris.
Joseph Goebbels organizes Crystal Night ( 7,500 Jewish shops
destroyed and 400 synagogues burnt down).
Adolf Hitler dismisses Hjalmar Schacht as president of the
Reichsbank.
The German Army invades Czechoslovakia.
Adolf Hitler demands the free city of Danzig in Poland.
Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact.
The German Army invades Poland and annexes the free city of
Danzig.
Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany.