| A | B |
| Alfred Rosenberg | Temporary leader of the NSDAP |
| December 1924 | Hitler released from prison |
| September 1928 | Ban on Hitler speaking in public lifted |
| Gregor Strasser | Wanted to revise the 25 Point Programme |
| February 1926 | Bamberg Conference |
| Joseph Goebbels | Gauleiter of Berlin from December 1926 |
| Gauleiters | Provided local control for the NSDAP |
| Reichleiters | Highly important NSDAP officials |
| 1926 | Foundation of the Hitler Youth |
| August 1927 | First Nuremberg rally |
| Franz von Salomon | replaced Ernst Rohm as leader of the SA |
| Blackshirts | SS |
| Heinrich Himmler | Leader of the SS from 1929 |
| Urban Plan | Strasser's attempt to win more working-class support |
| Reich Organisation Leader from 1927 | Gregor Strasser |
| Alfred Hugenberg | Leader of the DNVP |
| Wilhelm Frick | First Nazi appointed to a state government |
| Black Thursday | 24 October 1929 |
| September 1930 | When the NSDAP made its electoral breakthrough |
| July 1932 | When the NSDAP became the largest party in the Reichstag |