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    "ocrText": "SECRET\nAPPENDIX E\nCHRONOLOGY\n1870\nFranco-Prussian War: Napoleon III surrenders at Sedan (September 2) and\nFrance yields Alsace-Lorraine and large indemnity in peace treaty.\n1871\nGerman Empire established, the constitution coming into effect 1 January and\nKing William of Prussia crowned Emperor at Versailles on 18 January.\n1890\nResignation of Bismarck as Chancellor (18 March); Wilhelm II takes over direc-\ntion of German foreign and domestic policy.\n1900-14\nGrowing tension between the Triple Alliance and the Entente over trade, arma-\nments, colonies, etc.; Germany gives Austria free hand in the Balkans (1908),\nthus angering Russia and reversing Bismarck policy of friendly relations on\nthe East.\n1914\nAssassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by Servian nationalists at Serajevo\n(28 June) Austrian ultimatum to Serbia (23 July) followed by Russian mobiliza-\ntion; Germany invades France via Belgium (3 August) bringing Great Britain\ninto war; German army stopped at the Marne (9 September).\n1917\nGermany declares unrestricted submarine warfare (31 January); US breaks off\ndiplomatic relations with Germany (3 February) and declares war (6 April).\n1918\nTreaty of Brest-Litovsk (3 March), Russia withdraws from war and German\ntroops occupy Ukraine. Allies break German western front (8 August) Luden-\ndorf asks for armistice (29 September) ; revolution breaks out in Germany (29 Oc-\ntober) the Kaiser abdicates, a Republic proclaimed with Ebert as Chancellor;\nAllied armistice terms accepted (11 November).\n1919\nTreaty of Versailles (22 June) disarms Germany, deprives it of 27,275 square miles\nof territory, and imposes heavy but unspecified reparations. Election of Na-\ntional Assembly (19 January) adoption of Weimar constitution (31 July) pro-\nviding republican form of government. Communist uprisings in Berlin, Bavaria,\nand elsewhere crushed by the Free Corps.\n1919-24\nPeriod of rampant inflation as Germany seeks to evade payment of reparations,\nFrench occupy the Ruhr (January 1923) nationalist reaction grows, republican\nleaders assassinated by young reactionaries; attempted Munich beer hall putsch\n(8 November 1923) of Bavarian nationalists under Adolf Hitler dispersed by the\nReichswehr.\n1925-29\nPeriod of relative economic stability; Dawes and Young Plans regulate repara-\ntions question; large loans from US employed to revive German prosperity; Ger-\nmany joins League of Nations, and Stresemann as Chancellor wins political\nconcessions from Allies but not enough to satisfy Hitler-Hugenberg nationalists\nwho flourish on denunciation of Treaty of Versailles.\n1930-32\nPeriod of severe economic depression: emergence of Nazis as strongest party in\nReichstag as hard times swell nationalist ranks; failure of unconstitutional\nefforts of Hindenburg to solve problems by appointment of \"non-political\" au-\nthoritarian cabinets.\n1933\nPresident von Hindenburg forced to appoint Hitler as Chancellor (30 January);\nReichstag fire (28 February) inaugurates Nazi reign of terror; Reichstag \"En-\nSECRET\nE-1"
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