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28 June 1919 — Versailles created genuine political grievances and became a powerful symbol in German nationalist politics. Yet there were many possible paths after 1919, including the re...
28 June 1919 onward — The Treaty of Versailles becomes one of the most controversial diplomatic settlements in modern history. Reparations, territorial changes, military restrictions and ...
11 January 1923 — French and Belgian troops occupy Germany's Ruhr industrial region after Germany falls behind on reparations deliveries. The German government responds with passive resis...
16 March 1935 — Hitler announces conscription and expansion of Germany's armed forces in open violation of Versailles restrictions. Germany has already been rearming secretly, but the ann...
8 September 1926 — Germany enters the League of Nations as a permanent Council member. The move symbolizes the diplomatic normalization associated with Gustav Stresemann's foreign policy....
7 March 1936 — German troops enter the demilitarized Rhineland in violation of the Versailles and Locarno arrangements. Hitler's forces have orders to retreat if confronted by overwhelmin...
13 August 1923 — Stresemann becomes German chancellor during the Ruhr and inflation crisis and later serves as foreign minister. He ends passive resistance in the Ruhr, supports currency ...
28 June 1919 — Germany and the Allied powers sign the Treaty of Versailles. Germany loses territory, accepts military restrictions and becomes liable for reparations under a settlement wh...
28 June 1919 — Germany and the Allied powers sign the Treaty of Versailles exactly five years after Franz Ferdinand's assassination. Germany accepts territorial losses, military restricti...
28 June 1919 — Many German political movements interpret Versailles as a dictated peace and focus particularly on territorial losses, reparations and the treaty's responsibility clause. M...
30 September 1938 — Use Munich as an investigative anchor and work backward through Versailles, economic crisis, Nazi ideology and rearmament, then forward through Prague, Poland and the ...