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Adolf Hitler appointed as German Chancellor.
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First Nazi concentration camp is formed at Dachau
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Gestapo, Nazi secret police, were formed
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25,000 "un-German" books were burned
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Germany withdraws from the League of Nations
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Nuremberg laws were established and relationships between Jews and Aryans were banned
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Hitler Youth membership made compulsory for all boys
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Adolf Hitler orders the release of imprisoned Austrian Nazis
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Nazis destroy the synagogue in Nuremberg
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Hitler and Chamberlain sign the Munich Agreement
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"Crystal Night" - Jewish shops and synagogues were destroyed
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Nazi-Soviet Pact, agreement made to divide Poland
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Anglo-Polish Common defense pact
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Hitler invaded Poland and defeated it
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Britain and France declared war on Germany
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Daylight and night bombings on Britain
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356 ghettos in Poland. Ghettos were overcrowded and filthy
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Mass murder of Jews start. Einsatzgruppen kill 1,500,000 Jews by shooting them but death camps would start to be used.
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Nazis began using gassing vans
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Japanese attacks US at Pearl Harbor
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Hitler declares war on the US
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Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibór began as concentration camps. 2.7 million Jews were killed in these camps.
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At the end of 1942, 5.4 million Jews were killed
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American's free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.