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Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany
This is an important turning point for Germany. It also turned out to be important for the world. Hitler's plan, was to do away with politics and make Germany a powerful, one-party state. He started right away with ordering more state police. He formed the Gestapo, and was dedicated to stamping out opposition to his agenda. -
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World War 2
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Dachau Concentration Camp
Intended to hold political prisoners without trial. It was the first concentration camp. It is located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory northeast of the medieval town of Dachau. This is northwest of Munich -
Boycott
Nazi's declared a boycott on all Jewish businesses. -
Gestapo
This was the beginning of the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe. -
Public Book Burnings
This started a campaign conducted by the German Student Union to ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s. The books targeted for burning were those viewed as representing ideologies opposed to Nazism or Jewish beliefs. -
Kristallnact
This was an organized incident known as “Kristallnacht”, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, also called the “Night of Broken Glass,” This put fear into the hearts of the Jews. -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws were anti-Jewish statutes enacted by Germany on September 15, 1935, marking a major step in clarifying racial policy and removing any Jewish influences. -
No more Jew or Women doctors
Jewish and female doctors were not allowed to practice medicine in Germany during Hitler’s rule from 1933 to 1945. This led to a decline in healthcare with having less doctors -
Buchenwald Concentration Camp
This concentration camp was one of the largest and it opened for Men only at first. It was for political prisioners until Kristallnacht. Then it kept Jews. There were also medical experimentations done at this camp. -
Jewish Students Expelled
There were already limitations on jewish kids attending school, but at this time they were forbidden. There was alot of focus on race classes. -
Ghettos
Jews are evicted from their homes and moved into ghettos. -
Germany invades Poland
After several warnings about taking over other countries, Germany ignores them and takes Poland. -
Roosevelt Again!
The democrats elect FDR to run for a third term. He wins by a landslide! -
Auschwitz
It was he largest of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps and extermination centers. It was located in German occupied Poland. -
France Surrenders
Petain arranged an armistice with the Nazis. More than half of France was occupied by the Germans. In July, Petain took office as “chief of state” at Vichy, a city in unoccupied France. The Vichy government under Petain collaborated with the Nazis, and French citizens suffered on both sides of the divided nation. -
Britian's Finest Hour
WInston Churchill gives a speech with anticipation of the war about to start. He encourages his men with strong words eventhough he has only been prime minister for just over a month. -
US Withholds Gasoline from Japan
President Roosevelt swung into action by freezing all Japanese assets in America. Britain and the Dutch East Indies followed suit. The result: Japan lost access to three-fourths of its overseas trade and 88 percent of its imported oil. Japan’s oil reserves were only sufficient to last three years, and only half that time if it went to war and consumed fuel at a more frenzied pace. -
British Bomb Berlin
95 aircraft were dispatched to bomb Tempelhof Airport near the center of Berlin and Siemensstadt, of which 81 dropped their bombs in and around Berlin, and while the damage was slight, the psychological effect on Hitler was greater. -
Japan Joins Axis
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US seized German ships
The US started keeping the German ships under protective custody until the end of the war. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in a sneaky attack that no one was ready for. -
US enters WW2
The US entered the war against Japan and Germany. -
Belzec extermination camp
This is the extermination gas chambers you read about. The Jews were brutally pushed to "the tube" and into the gas chambers which were disguised as "showers." The brutalized and disoriented Jews, often weak from hours or days spent in cattle trucks, had barely any time to evaluate their fate or react defensively. -
Operation "Torch"
US troops land in Africa led by Eisenhower. -
Stalingrad
This battle is the turning point of the war. -
Warsaw ghetto revolt
The Jewish underground fight against the Nazis. The revolt in the Warsaw ghetto had broad implications. The Poles were impressed with the revolt and realized that even a handful of people, with a minimal amount of weapons, could cause great damage to the enemy in city fighting, and could tie down large forces. -
D-Day in Europe
Simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France. -
Assasination Attempt
A group of German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler. Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. The name Operation Valkyrie—originally referring to part of the conspiracy—has become associated with the entire event. -
Auschwitz Liberated
Russia Liberated the Concentration camps. They rescue 7,000 prisoners, most of whom are ill and dying. -
FDR dies
He collapsed and died as a result of a cerebral hemorrhage before the end of the war. Truman takes office and "The Buck Stops Here" -
Mussolini dies
He was viciously murdered and mutilated. He was upside down by his feet. -
Hitler Commited suicide
They say he used cyanide on his family and dogs and left a letter. We found a skull and teeth fragmants. He was probably worried about what had happened to Mussolini so he shot himself. -
Atomic Bombs
Truman ordered the atomic bombs to be dropped on Heroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. This caused Japan to surrender. -
End of WW2
Day the Japanese delegation formally signs the instrument of surrender on board the USS Missouri, marking the official ending of World War II.
