WORLD WAR II - EUROPE

By taylahcarman

  • 1918

    1918
    On November 11th world war I ended and the Germans were defeated

  • 1920 (Roaring 20's)

    1920 (Roaring 20's)
    A period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and in Europe

  • 1921

    1921
    July the 29th marks the day Adolf Hitler became the leader of the Nazi party

  • 1926

    1926
    on September 8th Germany admitted to league of nations

  • 1929 (The Great Depression)

    1929 (The Great Depression)
    The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors.

  • 1930

    1930
    September 14th - German elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest Political Party in Germany

  • 1933

    1933
    January the 30th - Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
    March 12th - First concentration camp opened in Oranienburg outside Berlin
    October 14th - Germany quits the league of nations

  • 1934

    1934
    • July 25th Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss
    • August 19th Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany

  • 1935

    1935
    March 16th - Hitler violates the treaty of Versailles
    September 15th - Jews rights are stripped

  • 1937

    1937
    November 5th Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Confernece

  • 1938

    1938
    • March 12/13 Germany announces union with Austria
    • October 15th the German troops occupy the sudetenland (czech government resigns)

  • 1939

    1939
    September 5th - Hitler invades Poland. Britain and France declare War 2 days later
    - Jews rights are stripped

  • 1940

    1940
    • Rationing begins in the UK
    • British victory in the battle of Britain forces Hitler to post-war invasion plans

  • 1941

    1941
    • April 6th Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia
    • Hitler begins operation Barbossa
    • Invasion of Russia
    • Japan attacks Pearl Harbour, Britain declares War

  • 1942

    1942
    • Germany suffers setbacks at Stalingrad and El Alamein
    • The mass murder of Jews in Auschwitz begins

  • 1943

    1943
    • Surrender at Stalingrad marks Germany's first major defeat
    • Italy surrenders, but Germany takes over the battle

  • 1944

    1944
    • Allies land at Anzio and bomb monastery at Monte Cassino.
    • Soviet offensive gathers pace in Eastern Europe.
    • D Day: The Allied invasion of France. Paris is liberated in August.
    • Guam liberated by the US Okinawa, and Iwo Jima bombed.

  • 1945

    1945
    • Auschwitz liberated by Soviet troops.
    • Russians reach Berlin: Hitler commits suicide and Germany surrenders on 7 May and Truman becomes President of the US on Roosevelt's death, and Attlee replaces Churchill.