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President Hindenburg and Adolf Hitler
President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Gemrany -
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Events of WW2
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New Law
The Nuremberg Race Laws -
Night of Broken Glass
Kristallnacht -
Poland vs Germany Begins
Germany invades Poland -
The start of WW2
The German-Soviet Pact -
Denmark & Norway vs Germany
Germany invades Denmark and Norway -
Battling Britian
Britian vs Germany -
Killing Units
Einsatzgruppen shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century forifications surrounding Kovno -
Japan vs the U.S.
Japan bombs Pearl Habor bringing the United States to declare war on Japan. Soon causing the alliance of Japan (Italy and Germany aka the Axis Powers) to declare wore (mostly Germany) on the United States on December 11, 1941. -
The Final Solution
The Wannsee Conference held near Berlin, Germany. -
To Germany They Go
Elie Wiesel is fifteen years old when he and his family are deported in May 1944 by the Hungarian gendarmerie and the German SS and police from Sighet to Auschwitz. -
The Second Front
On June 6, 1944, under the code name Operation "Overlord," US, British, and Canadian troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, on the English Channel coast east of Cherbourg and west of Le Havre. -
Death March
Prisoners forced to walk. Many die of hunger and thirst. Heinrich Himmler ordered that prisoners in all concentration camps and subcamps be evacuated toward the interior of the Reich. -
The Halt
Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler orders a halt to the "Final Solution" in November 1944 and orders the destruction of the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau -
B.O.T.B
Battle of the Bulge. As the Allies attempted to penetrate across the western border of Germany in late 1944, the Germans tried one last gambit to reverse their fortunes. Operation “Watch on the Rhine” was intended to split British and US forces in northern France. -
Adolf Hitler brains fly
Adolf Hitler commits suicide -
Bombs
On September 2, the Pacific War ends with the surrender of Japan after the US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August. World War II is over. -
The Treaty
The Paris Peace Treaties of 10 February 1947 is signed
