World War II

By zantanah973

  • Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany

  • Dachau concentration camp opens

  • Public burning of books written by Jews

  • Law established to strip Jewish immigrants of German citizenship

  • Hitler proclaims himself Führer (Leader) and armed forces swear allegiance to him

  • Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces

  • The Nuremberg Laws are passed forbidding Jews from claiming German citizenship and from marrying Aryans

  • Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

  • non-aggression pact between Soviet Union and Germany is signed

  • Germany invades Poland and World War II begins

  • Germany begins deportation of Austrian and Czech Jews to Poland

  • First Polish ghetto established in Piotrków

  • Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France

  • Concentration camp established at Auschwitz in Poland

  • Germany invades the Soviet Union

  • German Jews required to wear yellow star of David with the word "Jude"

  • Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

  • United States declares war on Japan and Germany

  • Cologne, Germany is bombed

  • German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad, Russia

  • Allied invasion at Normandy

  • Group of German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler

  • Last Jews deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz

  • Auschwitz is evacuated

  • Hitler commits suicide

  • Germany surrenders

  • Hiroshima is bombed

  • Japan surrenders and World War II ends