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World War II Timeline by Elizabeth Wells

  • President Hidenburg appoints Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany.

  • First official Nazi concentration camp opens in Dachau

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  • Boycott of Jewish-owned shops and businesses in germany

  • Nuremberg Race Laws

  • Summer Olympics begin in Berlin

  • Munich Agreement

  • The St. Louis sails from Hamburg, Germany.

  • Germaeny invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe

  • The Soviet Union occupies Poland from the east.

  • Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland

  • Germany invades Denmark and Norway

  • Germany attacks western Europe (France and the low countries)

  • Battle of Britain

  • Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece

  • Germany invades the Soviet Union

  • Einzatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno.

  • Einzatazgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev.

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declares war the next day

  • Nazi Germany declares war on the United States

  • Germans begin the mass deporatation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmo Killing Center

  • Warsaw ghetto uprising begins

  • Battle of Kursk

  • Rescue of Jews in Denmark

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • Germany surrenders to the Soviets