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Hitler Becomes Chancellor
Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany -
Neutrality Act
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the 1937 Neutrality Act. Which bans travel on belligerent ships, forbids the arming of American merchant ships trading with belligerents, and issues an arms embargo with warring nations -
March of Time
Time Inc. releases an anti-Nazi propaganda newsreel entitiled March of Time in Nazi Germany. -
Anschluss
Adolf Hitler declares Austria part of the Third Reich. The Third Reich was used to describe the Nazi regime in Germany from January 30, 1933, to May 8, 1945. The Nazi rose to power marked the beginning of the Third Reich. It brought an end to the Weimar Republic, a parliamentary democracy established in defeated Germany after World War I. -
Kristallnacht
During the German Kristallnacht, Night of Broken Glass, 7,500 Jewish businesses are looted, 191 synagogues are set afire, nearly 100 Jews are killed, and tens of thousands are sent to concentration camps. -
Germany Invades Poland
German troops invade Poland on the ground while Hitler's air force bombs Polish cities from the sky, -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese fighter planes attack the American base at Pearl Harbor destroying U.S. aircraft and naval vessels, and killing 2,355 U.S. servicemen and 68 civilians. -
DoomsDay
The first of nearly 3 million Allied soldiers arrive in Normandy, on the northern shores of France.