The Book Thief Webquest Timeline

By alaikrae24@student.romeok12.org

  • Communism

    Communism
    Government system that everything is owned by the public and people. Hitler was opposed because he wanted to control everything, communism everything is controlled by public.

  • Adolf Hitler - Comes Into Power

    Adolf Hitler - Comes Into Power
    People thought he was a good leader because he was powerful and his popularity was growing.
    Hitler got arrested after the Beer Hall Putsch. While in prison, he wrote a book called Mein Kampf, meaning my struggle, about his views about race, Germans, and Jews.
    His major influence was Karl Lueger.

  • Reichstag Fire

    Reichstag Fire
    Someone burned the German parliament building, Nazi’s blame the communists. They think that they were planning an uprise against them which leads them to not like communists.

  • Book Burning In Nazi Germany

    Book Burning In Nazi Germany
    Books that were un-German were burned.
    For example: books by Freud and Einstein

  • Nazi Camps

    Nazi Camps
    Concentration camps were where they imprisoned and murdered people. Also could have had forced labor and killing in gas chambers.
    They held political prisoners ~ German communists, socialists, democrats
    Extermination camps were like death camps.
    Over 44,000 camps

  • Nuremberg Race Laws

    Nuremberg Race Laws
    It deprived Jews of their rights as citizens.
    The laws were to ensure that Germans and Jews (or partial Jews) didn't inter-marry.

  • Hitler Youth - For Boys and Girls

    Hitler Youth - For Boys and Girls
    It was to teach younger people about Nazi policies and to prepare them to be a Nazi and for war.
    Boys would prepare to help in times of war.
    Girls would do Sports, music, crafts, home economics

  • Jesse Owens

    Jesse Owens
    First American to win 4 gold medals in track and field.
    Showed that Black men could thrive, paved a way for future African Americans
    Was a runner in the olympics -- Hitler was angry at him

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    During the night Nazi’s broke into peoples homes and destroyed them. They beat and murdered the Jews.
    It was a massive coordinated attack on Jews.
    Night of Broken Glass

  • Adolf Hitler - Start of World War II

    Adolf Hitler - Start of World War II
    The expansion of Hitler/Germany into Poland was what started World War II.

  • Holocaust

    Holocaust
    A time of great loss of lives and mass slaughter of Jews by Nazi's.
    1941-1945

  • Ghettos in Eastern Europe

    Ghettos in Eastern Europe
    It was a place were the Jews were kept isolated from other non Jewish people. It was miserable living conditions
    Largest ghetto was in in Warsaw, Poland
    There were 3 types ~ closed, open, and destruction