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president Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany
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SS opens concentration camp outside of Munich
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German troops entered Rhineland
area in western Germany that the Versailles Treaty explicitly banned them from occupying. no action -
Hitler and Mussolini signed an agreement
Began alliance between two nations. Germany, Italy, and later
Japan, became known as the Axis Powers. -
Germany took over Austria.
Hitler demanded the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia.
Following the policy of appeasement British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain agreed to allow Hitler to occupy the Sudetenland. -
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Kristallnacht
Nazi thugs throughout Germany and Austria looted and destroyed Jewish stores, houses, and synagogues. -
Wannsee Conference held near Berlin, Germany.
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Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews
from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east -
Germans begin the mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews
from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center. -
Battle of the Bulge.
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Warsaw ghetto uprising begins.
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The Soviets launch their final offensive in Berlin.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies and Germany surrenders to the Soviets
