Lord of the Flies - World Events

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  • Paul Von Hindenburg

    defeats Adolf Hitler and is re-elected as the President of Germany

  • Soviet-Polish Non-Aggression Pact

    is signed

  • President Hindenburg

    appoints Adolf Hitler as the Chancellor of Germany

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    becomes President of the United States

  • Adolf Hitler

    was made dictator of Germany by the Reichstag

  • The Nazi Party

    becomes the official party of Germany

  • The Riechstag

    passes the Nuremburg Laws which legalized discrimination against Jews

  • Hitler makes it mandatory

    for all males age 10-18 to join the Hitler Youth

  • The Pact of Steel

    is signed between Italy and Germany forming an alliance

  • World War II starts

    with Germany invading Poland

  • Winston Churchill

    becomes Prime Minister of England

  • The Nazis

    capture the city of Paris

  • The United States enters World War II

    after the attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Mass murder

    of Jews occurs at Auschwitz

  • The United States'

    first bombing raid on Germany

  • Italy declares war

    on Germany

  • D-Day

    allies land in the northern coast of France

  • Anne Frank and her family

    are arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam

  • Allies free concentration camps

    and Harry Truman becomes President of the United States

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • The Korean War begins

  • The Soviet Union

    starts putting nuclear missiles on submarines

  • Senator McCarthy

    tells President Truman that the United States has been infiltrated with communists which causes people to become paranoid about spies

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected President

  • The American occupation

    of Japan ends and Japan re-gains their independence

  • Sir Edmund Hillary

    becomes the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest

  • The Korean War ends

  • The Soviet Union

    detonates the first hydrogen bomb

  • The first color tv's are made

  • The United States launches

    the first nuclear submarine