time line activity: Macy and Allison By allison_dunlap Nov 11, 1918 End of WW1 Feb 27, 1925 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi party Sep 30, 1928 Elie Wiesel is born Oct 24, 1929 U.S. stock market crashes Jan 30, 1933 Hitler became chancellor of Germany Mar 22, 1933 First concentration camp opened near Berlin Aug 1, 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht Sep 3, 1939 Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany Oct 15, 1939 Nazi's begin using youth euthanasia on sick and disabled May 10, 1940 Nazi's invade the Netherlands Jun 10, 1940 Nazis invade North Africa Sep 3, 1941 Gas chambers used for the first time at Auschwitz Sep 19, 1941 Nazi's order Jews to wear yellow stars Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor May 14, 1944 Elie and his family are deported Jun 6, 1944 Allied Forces D-Day invasion Jan 1, 1945 Elie and his father transferred to Buchenwald Jan 27, 1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz Jan 28, 1945 Elie's father dies in Buchenwald Apr 11, 1945 Elie liberated from Buchenwald Jun 3, 1945 Nazis bomb Berlin Aug 6, 1945 U.S.A. drops bomb on Hiroshima Aug 9, 1945 U.S.A. drops nuclear bomb on Nagasaki May 14, 1948 State of Israel created
