-
WWI Ends With German Defeat
-
League of Nations founded
-
Signing of the Treaty of Versailles
-
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party
-
Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" published
-
Germany admitted to League of Nations
-
Stock Market on Wall Street crashes (Start of the Great Depression)
-
Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany.
-
Franklin Roosevelt elected President of the United States.
-
Nazis open Dachau concentration camp
-
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
-
The German Reichstag burns
-
First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin
-
Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power
-
Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops.
-
Nazis burn books in Germany.
-
Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party.
-
Germany quits the League of Nations.
-
The Nazi "Night of the Long Knives"
-
Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss
-
German President Hindenburg dies
-
Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany
-
Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription.
-
German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws
-
The German Gestapo is placed above the law
-
German troops occupy the Rhineland
-
Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia
-
Civil war erupts in Spain
-
Franco declared head of Spanish State
-
Soviet leader Josef Stalin begins a purge of Red Army generals
-
Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Conference
-
Period: to
Germany announces 'Anschluss' (union) with Austria
-
German military mobilizes
-
British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich
-
German troops occupy the Sudetenland; Czech government resigns
-
Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany
-
Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.
-
Period: to
Nazis take Czechoslovakia
-
Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy
-
Nazis and Soviets sign Pact
-
Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty
-
German Troops Invade Poland
-
Evacuation Of Children In London
-
Britain, France, Australia, & New Zealand Declare War On Germany
-
United States proclaims its neutrality; German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland
-
Canada declares war on Germany; Battle of the Atlantic begins
-
Soviets invade Poland
-
Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland
-
Assassination attempt on Hitler fails
-
Soviets attack Finland
-
Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations
-
Second Evacuation Of Children In London
-
Rationing Begins In Britain
-
Germans bomb Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland.
-
Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.
-
Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.
-
Holland surrenders to the Nazis.
-
Belgium surrenders to the Nazis.
-
Germans bomb Paris
-
France Surrenders To Germany
-
Axis Forces Invade Russia