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- June 28, 1919
- Treaty of Versailles
- July 31, 1919
- September 12, 1919
- Germany is forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles, which imposes strict sanctions on the country. Anger at the treaty and the weight of reparations will destabilize Germany for years.
- July 29, 1921
- A socialist interim German government is replaced by the official creation of the democratic Weimar Republic.
- November 9, 1923
- Hitler joins the German Workers’ Party, having been sent to spy on it by the military.
- July 1, 1925
- HITLER's
- Hitler is able to become chairman of his party, which is renamed the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or NSDAP.
- Hitler believes the time is right to stage a coup. Aided by a force of SA brownshirts, the support of WW1 leader Erich Ludendorff, and browbeaten locals, he stages the Beer Hall Putsch. It fails.
- Hitler publishes "Mein Kampf," a ranting exploration of what passes as his ideology.
- Mein Kampf
