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Treaty of Versailles
A treaty made by the winning countries that treated Germany poorly. They did this because they lost millions of soldiers and it was Germany´s fault. Germany had to lose land, money, and soldiers. -
Hyperinflation
Prices of items rise exponentially. Too fast and too steep that people cannot keep up. Price of bread. -
Beerhall Putsch
Hitler attempts to overthrow the German government. -
Hitler on Trial
Hitler failed to overthrow the government. He was arrested for treason. He used his speaking skills to further blame the Jews. He was in a well kept jail. He wrote Mein Kampf or My Fight. -
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Republic Government
Germany went into a republic style government. In the early 1930s the leader became ill. -
Hitler Becomes the Chancellor
Hitler killed many higher up Nazis to gain control of the Nazis. Hindenburg gave Hitler the third highest rank in the government. Hitler is proud and people are recognizing us for who we are. -
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Holocaust
After WW1 a man named Adolf Hitler came into power, he turned the government into a dictatorship. He killed 11 million Jews. He took away their right, put them in the ghetto, sent them to concentration camps and killed them with gas chambers, shooting them, and starved them to death. -
Reichstag Fire
Hitler blames Communists for the fire. The Reichstag is where the congress people live. -
Enabling Act
Hitler gives himself the power to give himself temporary emergency powers. It later proves not to be temporary. -
Nuremberg Laws
Nazis created a way to identify Jews so they could discriminate them. If you had 3 or 4 Jewish Grandparents you were considered Jewish. -
Germany Invades Poland
Three million Jews came under Germany's control because Germany and the Soviets invaded Russia. WWII happens because of this. -
Ghettos
Taking everyone and putting them into cities with many Jews. These ghettos were walled off. Also, you could only have 180 grams of bread a day and only 220 grams of sugar per month. -
Euthanasia
Euthanasia was a systematic way of killing Germans who thought the Nazis were unworthy. -
First "Death Camp"
A small death camp starts in Central Poland. They used vans with small gas chambers in the rear. -
Wannsee Conference
The Nazis exterminate the Jews. -
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Einsatzgruppen
Mobile Killing Squads. Groups going around just killing Jews. 33,000 people were killed in under two days. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Residents smuggled weapons in. The uprisings lasted for about a month. SS troops were arrested and deported residents after the uprisings ended. -
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Death March
Allies were marching toward the death camps. Nazis evacuate prisoners, and march them into Germany to avoid capture. They had brutal treatments of prisoners on the way. -
Liberation
The allied countries came and liberated the Jews from the death camps and ghettos. -
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Nuremberg Trials
International Community put a number of Germans on trial for War Crimes, Crimes Against Peace and Crimes Against Humanity. Given death penalty and most pleaded not guilty.