Holocaust

  • Birth of Anne Frank

    Birth of Anne Frank

    Birth of Anne Frank in Frankfurt, Germany.
  • Hitler comes to Power

    Hitler comes to Power

    Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany.
  • Sterilization Law

    Sterilization Law

    Law for the Prevention of genetically Diseased offspring ( sterilization law) eneacted.
  • Gestapo Roundup

    Gestapo Roundup

    Gestapo roundup of homosexuals begins.
  • Nuremberg Laws

    Nuremberg Laws

    Nuremberg laws are announced.
  • Arrest of German Gypies

    Arrest of German Gypies

    First arrests of German Gypies.
  • Reich Central Office

    Reich Central Office

    Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion is established in Berlin.
  • Widespread Arrests

    Widespread Arrests

    Preventive crime fighting decree allows widespread arrest of gypsies and other "asocials."
  • Kristallnact

    Kristallnact

    On November 9, 1938, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels announced a government-sanctioned reprisal against the Jews. Synagogues were ravaged and then burned. Jewish shop windows were broken. Jews were beaten, raped, arrested, and murdered. Throughout Germany and Austria, the pogrom known as Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass") rampaged.
  • Gypsie Requirements

    Gypsie Requirements

    All Gypsies required to register with police.
  • Combating the Gypsy Nuisance

    Combating the Gypsy Nuisance

    Heinrich Himmler issues cicular on " Combating the Gypsy
    Nuisance".
  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland. Killings and deportations of Polsih citizens begin.
  • Euthanasia

    Euthanasia

    Hitler authorizes T4 euthanasia program.
  • Germany Invades Soviet Union

    Germany Invades Soviet Union

    German soldiers march into soviet union.
  • Mass Executions

    Mass Executions

    Mass executions of jews,Gypies, and communist officials begin.
  • Hitler Issues stop

    Hitler Issues stop

    Hitler issues stop order for T4 eauthansia centers.
  • Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor

    Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor

    Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. United States enter the war.
  • Hitler Command

    Hitler Command

    Hitler assumes personal command of all German armed forces.
  • Franks go into hiding

    Franks go into hiding

    Franks hide in secret annnex to stay away from the nazis.
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    " D-Day"; Allies invade continental Europe at Normandy, France.
  • Franks are Found

    Franks are Found

    Franks secret annex is found. Nazis send them to concentration camps.
  • Annie Dies

    Annie Dies

    Annie has a sickness called typus. Annie dies at bergen-belson concentration camp.
  • VE Day

    VE Day

    Germany surrenders; War in Europe ends
  • Hitler commits suicide

    Hitler commits suicide

    Hitler knew he was going to lose the war so he takes the cowards way out.
  • America Uses Atomc Bomn

    America Uses Atomc Bomn

    On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World W
  • Japan Surrenders

    Japan Surrenders

    After America used the atomic bomb twice on cities in Japan, Japan finally surrenders.