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End of WW1
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Hitler becomes leader of the Nazis
Hitler took leadership of the Nazi party then renamed the National Socialist German Workers Party. -
Black Tuesday
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, or known as Black Tuesday was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. -
Hitler Becomes Chancellor
Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany -
Sachsenhausen
Was a Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany used primarily for political prisoners -
Berlin Olympics
The Olympics were held in Berlin, Germany in the summer of 1936. It was officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad -
Yellow badge
Nazis ordered Jews to wear a yellow star to mark them Jewish or Christian in public areas. It was worn as a badge of shame. -
Kristallnacht
Also referred to the "Night of Broken Glass" it was a progrom against Jews. -
Aktion T4
The Nazis started the euthanasia program on the sick and disabled to get rid of the people that could not do anything or were suffering. It was known as a "mercy death." -
Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany
After Germany invades Poland. Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany. -
Nazis invade Holland
The Netherlands had claimed neutrality when the war broke out, but Hitler ordered it to be invaded anyways. -
North African Campaign
The campaign was fought between the Axis and Allied powers. -
Gas Chambers
Gas chambers were first used at Auschwitz to exterminate the prisoners there. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan sent a surprise military strike on the navy ships in Pearl Harbor. It led the United States into World War II. -
D-Day
Allied forces invaded Normandy Beach. -
Liberation of Auschwitz
Soviet troops liberated more than 7,000 prisoners. -
Bombing of Berlin
The Americans dropped 23,000 tons of bombs on Berlin. -
Nagasaki
The US dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Israel
The state of Israel was created.
