Book Thief Webquest Timeline

  • Communism is Released

    Communism is Released
    Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels release their social pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto, creating communism, also known as Marxism, Socialism, and others
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    Adolf Hitler, in Politics

    Infamous dictator of the Third Reich in Nazi Germany. Instigator of World War Two
  • HItler Youth Founded

    HItler Youth Founded
    Service with the purpose of training youth to become Storm Troopers or serve apart of the armed forces.
  • First Concentration Camp

    First Concentration Camp
    Dachau Concentration Camp is established near Munich, Germany.
  • Berlin Book Burning

    Berlin Book Burning
    German students from universities gather to burn books with"un-German" ideas.
  • Jesse Owens Runs in the Olympics

    Jesse Owens Runs in the Olympics
    Jesse Owens, an African American running for the US in 1935, wins four gold metals and set 3 world-records in 45 minutes
  • Nuremberg Race Laws

    Nuremberg Race Laws
    The Nuremberg Race laws that outlawed German Jews and deprived them of their human rights.
  • Anschluss

    Anschluss
    Germany's annexation of Austria, one of the several starting blocks into WWII.
  • Kristallnacht.

    Kristallnacht.
    a.k.a, "The Night of Broken Glass", was a large attack against Jews in Western Europe.
  • The First Ghetto Established

    Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
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    World War Two

    The most devastating war seen by mankind. Instigated by Adolf Hitler.
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    The Holocaust

    The systematic slaughter of Jewish people and those who wronged Nazi Germany.