Major Events 1933-45

By jmichelle_gille

  • Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

  • Period: to

    1933-45

  • 1st official Nazi camp in Dachau

  • Armed forces swear allegiance to Hitler

  • The Nuremberg Laws are put into effect

    first anti-jew laws. not german citizens

  • Buchenwald camp opens

  • German Jews are evicted from their homes and forced into ghettos

  • Kristallnacht occurs

  • Jewish pupils expelled from German schools

  • Germany invades Poland

  • Germans occupy Denmark and South Norway

  • Auschwitz becomes a concentration camp

  • Neuengamme camp opens

  • Battle of Britain begins

  • Germany invades Soviet Union

  • Japan bombs Pearl Habor

  • US declares war on Japan and Germany

  • Allies liberate Paris, France

  • Russia liberates Auschwitz

  • Hitler commits suicide

  • WWII ends