Imgres

World War II

  • Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party.

  • Franklin Roosevelt elected President of the United States.

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.

  • First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin.

  • Nazis burn books in Germany.

  • Germany quits the League of Nations.

  • 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.

  • Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Conference.

  • German military mobilizes.

  • British fleet mobilizes; Civilian evacuations begin from London.

  • Nazis invade Poland.

  • Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.

  • United States proclaims its neutrality

  • Canada declares war on Germany; Battle of the Atlantic begins

  • Soviets invade Poland.

  • Assassination attempt on Hitler fails.

  • Soviets attack Finland.

  • Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations.

  • Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.

  • Holland surrenders to the Nazis.

  • Norway surrenders to the Nazis; Italy declares war on Britain and France.

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    Massive German air raid on London.

  • Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor

  • United States and Britain declare war on Japan.

  • Hitler declares war on the United States.

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide.