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Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated on June 28, 1914. He was assassinated in Sarajevo. His murder precipitates the start of World War I. -
The Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to concede vast European territories and overseas colonies. -
In February 1920, Hitler presents a 25-point Program to a Nazi Party meeting. -
Hitler makes the declaration at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich, the beer hall where he led his aborted coup against the democratically elected government in 1923. -
Annelies Marie Frank is born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Otto and Edith Frank. For the first 5 years of her life, Anne lived with her parents and older sister, Margot, in an apartment on the outskirts of Frankfurt. After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Anne's father, Otto Frank, fled to Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where he had business connections. -
Slovak Jew Bela Weichherz and his wife, Esti, lived in the city of Bratislava where he worked as a traveling salesman for the Philips Company. Bela’s parents and some of his seven siblings remained in Cadca, his hometown, and the family visited them often.
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In July 1932 the Nazi Party wins 230 seats in German parliamentary elections, becoming the largest party represented. -
Roosevelt’s main focus in his first term was the Great Depression and its consequences for the United States and the world. In 1933 about 25 percent of the US work force was unemployed; more than 11 million people were without jobs.
