Armistice signed 1918 Treaty of Versailles June 1919 Hitler joins the German Workers’ Party September 1919 Invasion of the Ruhr January 1923 Stresemann becomes Chancellor August 1923 Height of hyperinflation November 1923 Munich Putsch November 1923 Rentenmark 1924 ‘Mein Kampf’ published 1925 Germany joins League of Nations 1926 Wall Street Crash 1929 Hitler became Chancellor January 1933 Reichstag Fire February 1933 Enabling Act March 1933 Germany leaves the League of Nations October 1933 Night of the Long Knives July 1934 Hindenburg dies August 1934 Nuremberg Laws 1935 Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) 1938 Outbreak of WWII 1939 ‘Final Solution’ begins 1942 End of WWII 1945