ROAD TO WW2 PART 2

By eatgrandma

  • Hitler's secret police, the Gestapo, is placed above the law

  • Germany takes the Rhineland, a river area with tons of resources

  • Italy forces take Ethiopia

  • Civil War erupts in Spain, Germany assists Nationalist forces

  • Francisco Franco is declared head of state in Spain

  • Josef Stalin begins the purge of Red Army generals

  • Hitler reveals war plans at the Hossbach Conference

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    Hitler announces the Anschluss

    Which is the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany

  • Germany mobilizes their military

  • British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich

  • German troops occupy the Sudetenland

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    Kristallnacht, a night of Anti-Jewish progroms, occurs

    It involves the destruction of Jewish owned stores, businesses, and Synagogues

  • The Nazis force the Jews to pay for the damages of Kristallnacht, which add up to one million German marks

  • Jewish pupils are expelled from all non-Jewish schools

  • Hermann Goring, President of the Reichstag, is put in charge of resolving the "Jewish question"

  • High ranking German Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich is ordered to speed up the emigration of the Jews

  • Hitler threatens the Jews during his speech at the Reichstag

  • The Nazis force the Jews to hand over all of their gold and silver items

  • Spanish Civil War ends

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    Nazi troops seize Czechoslovakia

  • Jewish tenants lose tenant rights and are moved into Jewish homes

  • The St. Louis, a ship carrying 930 Jewish refugees, is turned away by Cuba, the US, and others

  • The Axis powers is formed after Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel

  • Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann is appointed director of the Prague office of Jewish emigration

  • Nazis and Soviets sign the Non-Aggression Pact

    Neither country would take military action against each other for the next 10 years

  • Poland and Britain sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty

  • British fleet mobilizes, and civilian evacuations begin in London

  • Germany invades Poland

  • Great Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • Warsaw is cutoff by the German Army

  • United States proclaims neutrality

  • Canada declares war on Germany, the Battle of the Atlantic begins

  • Soviet Union invades Poland

    Due to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact

  • Reinhard Heydrich proclaims that all Jews are to be gathered into ghettos for the final plan.

    He also establishes councils to implement Nazi policies in the ghettos.

  • German Jews are forbidden to own wireless radio sets

  • Warsaw surrenders to Nazis

  • Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland

    61.2% of Jews live in German areas.
    38.8% of Jews live in Soviet areas.

  • Nazis start to euthanize the sick and disabled

  • Hans Frank is appointed as the Nazi gauleiter (governor) of Poland

    He oversaw the segregation of Jews into ghettos

  • Polish-Jews from ages 14-60 have forced labor decree

  • Assassination attempt on Hitler fails

    Johann Georg Elser planted a bomb to kill Hitler at his speaking platform, but Hitler left earlier than expected

  • Polish-Jews over the age of 10 are required to wear yellow stars