| A | B |
|---|
| March 1918 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
| 9 November 1918 | German Republic declared as Kaiser abdicates |
| 11 November 1918 | Armistice signed ending World War One |
| January 1919 | Communist risings (Spartacists) suppressed by Freikorps |
| February 1919 | Newly elected government meets at Weimar, headed by Ebert |
| June 1919 | German delegation signs Treaty of Versailles |
| March 1920 | Kapp Putsch (right-wing) fails to overthrow government |
| April 1921 | Reparation levels established by Allies |
| April 1922 | German signs Rapallo Pact with Russia |
| June 1922 | The (Jewish) German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau assassinated by right-wing terror group |
| January 1923 | French and Belguim troops invade Ruhr as Gerrmany defaults on reparation payments |
| January 1923 - November 1923 | Hyperinflation crisis in Germany sees currency become worthless |
| August 1923 | Gustav Stresemann becomes Chancellor |
| 8 - 9 November 1923 | Hitler's Munich Putsch fails |
| November 1923 | Stresemann introduces Retenmark ending inflationary crisis |
| April 1924 | Dawes Plan reorganises reparation payments and secures US loans |
| December 1924 | Hitler is released early from prison |
| February 1925 | President Ebert dies |
| April 1925 | Field Marshall Hindenburg is elected President |
| October 1925 | Locarno Pact signed stablising Germany's western borders |
| September 1926 | germany joins League of Nations |
| June 1929 | Young Plan eases reparations burden but is hated by many Germans |
| 3 October 1929 | Gustav Stresemann dies |
| 29 October 1929 | Wall Street Crash leads to mass unemployment in Germany |
| March 1930 | Bruning becomes Chancellor and is quickly forced to rely on Presidential Decrees to rule |
| September 1930 | Elections inidcate huge gains for extremist parties such as Nazis and Communists |
| July 1932 | Nazis become largest party in Reichstag with 37% of vote |
| November 1932 | nazi support falls to 33% of vote in elections |
| December - January 1933 | Struggle between von Papen and General Schleicher sees Hitler appointed Chancellor |
