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Adolf Hitler Appointed Chancellor
Nazi party gains control of German state when president appoints Hitler as Chancellor -
Establishment of Dachau Camp
Outside Dachau, Germany protection squads establish first concentration camp -
Kristallnacht
“The night of broken glass” named for the shattered glass from store windows that were all over the streets from the violence of Nazi party officials -
Warsaw Ghetto Sealed
German authorities order Warsaw ghetto to be sealed confining more than 350,000 Jews -
Euthanasia killings
Hitler orders coordinated euthanasia killings where up to 70,000 were murdered by German health care professionals -
Killing operations begin at Chelmno
Police authorities establish killing center to annihilate Jewish population. It was the first facility to use poison gas to mass murder Jews. -
U.S. declares war on Japan
President Roosevelt asks U.S. Congress to declare war on Japan following previous days surprise attack on Pearl Harbor -
Wannsee Conference
This conference was a plan to coordinate a “Final Solution” to authorize another mass murder. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
That morning, police units found the ghetto to be deserted because residents were in hiding as the renewal of deportations of Jews to death camps triggered an armed uprising in the ghetto. Jews fought in small groups for almost a month -
D-Day
U.S British and Canadian troops land on beaches of France. Germans were tricked and contained. By august, allied troops encircled and destroyed much of Germany army and by late august Free French Forces liberated Paris. -
Japan Surrenders
Japan surrenders and World War Two officially ends.