Causes of WW2

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    Causes of WW2

  • Hitler is now Chancellor (Prime Minster) of Germany

    Within a few months concentration camps were opened and potical opponents of the Nazis were placed in them. By March, Hitler introduced the Enabling Act, which let make laws without parliment of the President. By July, Hitler banned all parties except the Nazi Party.

  • Hitler became leader & President Hindenburg died

  • Oath of loyalty is sworn to Hitler by Germany's armies

  • Nuremberg Laws

    12 laws were put into place to undermine Jewish people

  • Hitler ordered troops in Rhineland

  • Germany (Hitler) made alliances with Italy and Japan

  • Eternal Jew Exhibition

  • Germany invades Austria & join forces with Austria

  • Sudetenland is given to Hitler

  • Kristallnacht (night of broken glass)

    A massace/riot carried out by the Nazis
    90 Jews murdered
    30 000 Jews were arrested deported to concentratopm camps

  • Der Ewige Jude 1937-1940

    Propganda film

  • Ghettos

    in Poland, Jewish people were relocated to Jewish Ghettos
    At least 1000 ghettos established by Germans in Poland and Russia

  • Hitler Breaks his promise & invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia

  • Hitler & Stalin make a deal not to attack eachother

    This was known as the Nazi-Soviet Pact

  • Germany and Soviet forces invade Poland

    German troops invade from the west and Soviet forces invade from the east

  • Britain and France declare war on Germany but do not send troops

  • Germany invaded Denmark and Norway

  • French Government surrenders to Germany

  • The Final Solution

    Wsnnsee coference: Nazi officals met to destory Jewish people in Europe