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Reichstag Fire
+Hitler uses opportunity to abolish basic rights
+Fires turned into symbol for KPD uprising:
+Dutch Communist Marinus van der Lubbe blaimed
+Göring, without legal basis orders closure of KPD bureaus
+home secretary proposes Reichstag Fire Decree
=>suspends most important rights
=>ends rule of law (Rechtsstaat)
=>Conservatives approve, bc its "against Communists only"
=>they thought it was for a limited time, due to consitution/hindenburg -
Elections
+NSDAP not able to achieve absolute Majority
+has to rely on the (weak) DNVP to gouvern -
Enabling Act is passed
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Bringing into Line (Law)
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Federal gouvernments replaced with Gouvernors
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"Restoration" of Civil Service
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"German Labour Front" replaces Unions
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SPD banned
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Law against the establishment of political parties
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Concordat
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Germany leaves League of Nations
+Open challange to the Versailles Treaty -
NAP with Poland
+Non-agression Pact with Poland
+Germany seems agreeable, reinforcing appeasement policy -
Night of the long Knives
+Röhm Putsch -
Führer und Reichskanzler (Hindenburg dies)
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Plebiscite: Saarland rejoins Germany
+Overwhelmingly positive result
+Joy in GErmany -
Hitler announces Conscription
+Announces army of up to 750.000 soldiers
+Violation of Versailles Treaty -
Stresa Fromt
+British, Italian, French -
Anglo-German Naval Agreement
+Permission to construct fleet up to 35% of Britains Navy
+Violation of Versailles Traty -
Italy invades Ethiopia
Stresa Front cancelled
Intention: power demonstration -
Olympic Games in Berlin
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Remilitization of the Rheinland
+Soldiers march into the demilitarized Rheinland
+France does not react, Hitler is emboldened in his Plans
+Violation of Versailles Treaty -
Bombing of Guernica
+Germany demonstrates military power in spanish civil war
++supported fascist General Franco against republicans
+Guernia still loyal to the legal gouvernment
+first large-scale bombing to capture global attention
+fascist Italy, who also supports franco, becomes more fond of germany -
Hossbach Memorandum
+Hitler tells Top Ministers and commanders to rearm and prepare for war in the 1940s
+Hoßbach is the one that wrote notes in this meeting -
Anti Comintern Pact
+Germany, Japan and Italy
+against the Soviet Union -
Annexiation of Austria
+Troops march into Austria and are welcomed (in some places)
+Violation of Versailles Treaty, a clause that Germans had percieved as humiliating -
Munich Agreement
+In may, germans in czechslovakia are encouraged to start turmoil
+czechslovakia perepares for war
+Meeting between Neville Chamberlain and Hitler, (+Italy,France)
+Sudetenland should be handed to Germany by 10 October
+peak of appeasement -
Germany seizes Czechslovakia
+Germany conquers the rest of Czech lands ("Fall Grün")
+Violation of Munich Agreement
+NEville Chamberlain realizes Hitler can't be trusted
=> End of Appeasement -
Hitler-Stalin Pact
+Non Agression PAct with Soviets
+Additional Secret protocol:
=>partition of poland and eastern europe -
Poland gnomed
+Hitler didnt want a war at two fronts
=> Poland refused to join Anti Comintern Pact
=> negotiations between soviet, poland and germany had failed
+Hitler (actually foreign minister) revoked the Non-Agression Pact october 1938
=>germany wanted danzig and to construct a motorway through the polish corridor -
Britain and France declare War
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Period: to
Battle of Britain
The British date the battle from 11 July to 31 October 1940, which represented the most intense period of daylight bombing.[1] German historians usually place the beginning of the battle in May 1940 and end it mid-May 1941, with the withdrawal of the bomber units in support for Operation Barbarossa, the campaign against the Soviet Union, which began on June 22, 1941.[ -
Period: to
Battle of France
+German invasion of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
+After France's short Saar offensive -
France surrender/occupation
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Operation Barbarossa
+Attack on the Soviet Union -
Atlantic Charter
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USA declares War on Japan
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Period: to
Battle of Stalingrad
+Sorrounded by the 6th Army -
6th Army forced to surrender
+surrender started 31st january but took a while (??) -
Sportpalastrede
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Bomb War on German cities
+Us and British -
D-Day
+Operation Overlord -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
+Berlin encircled by Red Army
+Hitler commits suicide in his Führerbunker -
Unconditional Surrender
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Hiroshima nuked
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Nagasaki nuked
