World War II Timeline by McKenzie Chamberlain

By MSChamb11

  • 1

    1
    Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany

  • 2

    2
    Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses

  • 3

    3
    Jews no longer allowed to serve in the German armed forces

  • 4

    4
    Jews no longer considered German citizens.

  • 5

    5
    Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens.

  • 6

    6
    Buchenwald concentration camp opens.

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    7
    All Jewish businesses forcibly handed over to Germans.

  • 8

    8
    Germany invades Poland (Start of WW2)

  • 9

    9
    Hitler presents Mussolini with the Madagascar Plan, to deport all Jews to the island near the shore of Eastern Africa.

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    10
    The first experimental gassings are conducted at Auschwitz.

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    11
    The Vitebsk ghetto is liquidated (More than 16,000 Jews killed)

  • 12

    12
    The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, US enters WW2.

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    13
    The Jewish underground in Vilna calls Jews to fight back against the Germans.

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    14
    The first transports of Jews from interment camp to Auschwitz.

  • 15

    15
    The Bialystok ghetto is liquidated.

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    16
    The Vilna underground uprising fails.

  • 17

    17
    Germans launch "Operation Harvest Festival", large scale mass executions to liquidate remaining Jews.

  • 18

    18
    An attempt to assassinate Hitler fails

  • 19

    19
    74,000 Jews are deported to Auschwitz.

  • 20

    20
    Auschwitz is abandoned; death march of prisoners begin.

  • 21

    21
    The Soviets liberate Auschwitz.

  • 22

    22
    Mussolini is shot and killed by Walter Audisio.

  • 23

    23
    Hitler and Eva Braun, commit suicide.

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    25
    Germany officially surrenders to the Allies.
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    24

    The U.S. drops atomic bombs on Japan.