Download Concise History of Nazi Germany

A CONCISE TIMELINE OF NAZI GERMANY
1918 - November 9: The Kaiser abdicates and the Weimar Republic is born.
1919 - January 5: Anton Drexler founds the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.
1920 - February 24: Drexler's party is renamed the National Socialist (NSDAP) or Nazi Party.
1921 - July 10: Adolf Hitler becomes the leaders of the Nazi Party.
1923 - November 8-9: Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch in Munich fails.
1924 April 1: Hitler is sentenced to five years in prison for treason.
December 20: Hitler is released from prison.
1925 - February 27: The Nazi Party, which had been banished after the Putsch, is reestablished.
1928 - May 6: The Nazi Party gets 2.6% of the vote in the Reichstag elections.
1930 - September 14: The Nazi Party earns 18.3% of the vote in the Reichstag elections.
1932 March 13-April 10: In two presidential elections the Nazi Party earns 30.1% and 36.8% of the vote respectively.
Paul von Hindenburg earns 49.6% and 53%.
July 31: The Nazi Party earns 37.4% of the vote in the Reichstag elections and becomes the major party in the
Reichstag.
1933 January 30: Major industrial and financial groups withdraw their support for the cabinet, President Paul von
Hindenburg appoints Hitler Chancellor.
February 27: Hitler burns the Reichstag; Hitler blames "enemies of National Socialism".
February 28: In response to the Reichstag fire, the first repressive laws are issued against "enemies of National
Socialism" and non-Nazis.
March 5: The "Elections of Terror": The Nazi Party gets 43.9% of the vote; its German Nationalist allies get 8%.
March 23: A Reichstag without opposition gives complete authority to Hitler.
March 31: Laws prohibiting autonomous German Länders (or independent lands) are passed.
June 22-July 5: The remaining Weimar parties are either wiped out or self destruct.
July 14: The Nazi Party is declared the only legal political party.
October 14: Germany withdraws from the League of Nations (it had joined in 1926).
1934 - August 2: President Paul von Hindenburg dies; Hitler is appointed president of the Reich.
1935 March 16: Reintroduction of compulsory military service.
September 15: Anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws are passed.
1936 March 7: Germany reoccupies the Rhineland (demilitarized by the Treaty of Versailles).
July 28: German aircraft first intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
September 9: The four year plan for the war economy is established.
October 23: The Rome-Berlin Axis is formed.
December 1: The Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) is made the official state youth organization.
1937 - November 5: Hitler and his major military leaders finalize plans for the invasions of Austria and Czechoslovakia.
1938 March 12: Austrian Annexation or Anschluss (literally translated as "link-up").
September 30: The Munich Pact (which resulted from the Munich Conference) returns the Sudetenland in
Czechoslovakia to Germany. Appeasement policy officially begins.
November 9: Kristallnacht ("The Night of Broken Glass") and pogroms against the Jews
1939 March 15: Czechoslovakia is invaded.
August 23: Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact.
September 1: Germany invades Poland; WWII begins.
1940 - June 14: The Wehrmacht (unified German military forces) enter Paris.
1941 - June 22: Hitler violates the non-aggression pact with the U.S.S.R. and Operation Barbarossa (the German invasion
of the U.S.S.R.) begins.
1942 - January 20: The Wannsee Conferences develops directives for the "final solution".
1943 January 31: The 6th Germany Army is defeated at Stalingrad.
February 18: Goebbels declares "total war".
August 25: Himmler is appointed Interior Minister of the Reich.
September 9: Italy surrenders; German forces occupy the remaining Italian territory.
1944 June 6: Anglo-American D-Day landings along the Normandy coast (Operation Overlord).
July 20: Attempt on Hitler's life in his headquarters.
1945 February 4-11: It is decided at the Yalta Conference that the Four Powers will occupy Germany.
April 30: Hitler commits suicide in the Chancellery Bunker; the Red Army invades Berlin.
May 8: Unconditional surrender of German military forces.
July 17 - August 2: It is determined at the Potsdam Conference how the Four Powers will occupy Germany.
November 19: The Nuremberg Trials begin.