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Summary Pearson EDEXCEL Weimar Germany timeline
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Here's a summary of key points for the rise of Hitler for quick-fire revision:Key Events and Concepts
- **1919 Treaty of Versailles**
- War guilt clause: Germany takes blame for WWI.
- Reparations: £6.6 billion.
- Military restrictions: No air force, army limited to 100,000 soldiers.
- Territorial losses: Rhineland to France.
- **1919 Spartacist Uprising**
- Left-wing attempt to make Germany communist.
- Revolt crushed by Freikorps (right-wing ex-soldiers) - 100 Spartacist Members tortured
and killed
- **1920 Kapp Putsch**
- Right-wing coup attempt led by Wolfgang Kapp.
- Collapsed due to a general strike in Berlin.
- **192.3 Occupation of the Ruhr**
- French invasion of Ruhr due to Germany halting reparations.
- The government told German workers to go on strike and printed money to pay them
- This led to hyperinflation in Germany.
- **1923 Hyperinflation**
- Money devalued, causing severe economic hardship.
- People used money for non-economic purposes (e.g. making kites, setting fire to them and
wallpaper).
Affected: Those with savings, fixed wages (now worth less)
Not Affected: Farmers (They could feed themselves) and Those with land (still valuable)
- **1923 Munich Putsch**
- Failed Nazi coup led by Hitler. (Resulting in the deaths of 21 people)
- Resulted in Hitler's imprisonment. (9 months)
- **1923-29 Stresemann's Reforms**
- New currency (Rentenmark).
- Economic recovery through investment and international treaties
-(Locarno - Germany signed treaties promising not to invade various countries, so the
Allies left., Kellogg-Briand Pact - Germany and 29 other countries, all promised not to
invade each other.).
- Dawes Plan: US loans to Germany to help them pay back their reparations. (“Germany is
in fact dancing on a volcano”)
- Germany joining League of Nations: Allowed for peaceful international talks between
countries
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