1861 – Bismarck appointed Minister President of Russia. / 1920 – The Munich Beer Hall Putsch. This was Hitler’s attempt to overthrow Freidrich Ebert’s Weimar Government and replace it with a right wing government.
1919 – The Treaty of Versailles is imposed on Germany. (In Germany it is known as the Diktat). The Weimar Assembly meets. The Spartacist Uprising (left wing) is put down. / 1938 – Krystallnacht (The Night Of The Broken Glass). This was when Jewish businesses were destroyed. The Anchluss. This was the German annexation of Austria and was forbidden under the Treaty of Versailles.
1870 – 1871 – Franco-Prussian War. Afterward, the German Empire is proclaimed. / 1918 – The Allies win WWI. The German Republic is proclaimed.
1914 – 1918 – World War One. / 1870 – 1890 – Kulturkampf (Clash Of Cultures) – a series of anti-Catholic measures introduced under Bismarck. However, in the end Bixmarck was forced to reconcile with the Pope.
1924 – The Dawes Plan. This was the Allies attempt to collect war reparations from Germany. It was later replaced by the Young Plan. / 1935 – The Nuremburg Laws were passed against Jews in an attempt to secure the racial “purity” of German blood.
1925 – The Locarno Pact. This was an attempt to secure European peace and gave hope to many. It demilitarised the Rhineland. Hitler would break it in 1936. / 1864 – German war with Denmark.
1890 – Bismarck is forced into retirement. / 1929 – The Young Plan. This was a more lenient version of the Dawes Plan. The Great Depression causes soaring unemployment.
1939 – Germany annexed Czechoslovakia. Germany invaded Poland and France and Britain declared war in response. / 1934 – The Night Of The Long Knives. This was when purged the SA and removed his opposition.
1866 – German war with Austria. It is known as the Seven Weeks War. Afterward, Prussian hegemony of Germany is confirmed. / 1936 – Germany occupies the Rhineland. This was forbidden under the Locarno Pact, which Germany had signed.
1933 – Hitler became Chancellor and the Nazis became Germany’s only legal Party. Enabling Act passed.