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WW2

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    Start and fall of WW2

  • Hitler Apointed as chancelor

    Hitler Apointed as chancelor
  • The Reichstag building burns down

    The Reichstag building burns down
    seat of the German government, burns after being set on fire by Nazis. This enabled Adolf Hitler to seize power under the pretext of protecting the nation from threats to its security.
  • First concetration camp opens

    First concetration camp opens
    Nazi SA (Sturmabteilung) guards oversee prisoners who are carrying a tub near the entrance to the Oranienburg concentration camp in 1933. The SA was eventually replaced by Himmler's SS as the concentration camp system expanded to house an ever increasing number of political opponents and Jews, arrested and imprisoned without a trial or any right of appeal. The first camps included; Dachau in southern Germany near Munich, Buchenwald in central Germany near Weimar, and Sachsenhausen near Berlin in
  • Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power.

     Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power.
    On March 23, 1933, the newly elected members of the German Parliament (the Reichstag) met in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin to consider passing Hitler's Enabling Act. It was officially called the 'Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich.' If passed, it would effectively mean the end of democracy in Germany and establish the legal dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.
  • Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops.

     Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops.
    Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels delivers a speech to a crowd in the Berlin Lustgarten urging Germans to boycott Jewish-owned businesses. He defends the boycott as a legitimate response to the anti-German "atrocity propaganda" being spread abroad by "international Jewry." Below: Nazi storm troopers block the entrance to a Jewish-owned store. Their signs read: "Germans, defend yourselves against the Jewish atrocity propaganda, buy only at German shops!" and "Germans, defend yourselves, bu
  • Nazis burn books in Germany

     Nazis burn books in Germany
    May 10, 1933 - An event unseen since the Middle Ages occurs as German students from universities formerly regarded as among the finest in the world, gather in Berlin and other German cities to burn books with "unGerman" ideas. Books by Freud, Einstein, Thomas Mann, Jack London, H.G. Wells and many others go up in flames as they give the Nazi salute.
  • Nazis open Dachau concentration camp.

     Nazis open Dachau concentration camp.
    After Hitler came to power in early 1933, the Nazis began a systematic roundup of political opponents and all known anti-Nazis. There were so many arrests that conventional prisons quickly became overwhelmed. A series of 'wild' concentration camps were hastily constructed by Nazi storm troopers which were often little more than stockades surrounded by barbed wire.
  • Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party

     Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party
  • Germany quits the League of Nations

     Germany quits the League of Nations
  • The Nazi "Night of the Long Knives."

     The Nazi "Night of the Long Knives."
  • Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party

    Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party
  • Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss

    Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss
  • German President Hindenburg dies

    German President Hindenburg dies
  • Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany

     Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany
    By the summer of 1934, the elderly German President, Paul von Hindenburg, lay close to death at his country estate in East Prussia. He had been in failing health for several months, thus giving Adolf Hitler and the Nazis ample opportunity to make plans to capitalize on his demise
  • Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.

     Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
  • Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription

    Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription
  • German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws

     German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws
    The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship, giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's Reich. The laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have sexual relations with Aryans or to employ young Aryan women as household help. (An Aryan being a person with blond hair and blue eyes of Germanic heritage.)
  • The German Gestapo is placed above the law

    The German Gestapo is placed above the law
  • German troops occupy the Rhineland

    German troops occupy the Rhineland
    they took controll over there
  • Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia

    Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia
    italy starts invaiding places
  • Civil war erupts in Spain

    Civil war erupts in Spain
    spain dosent like its self anymore
  • Olympic games begin in Berlin.

    Olympic games begin in Berlin.
  • Franco declared head of Spanish State

    Franco declared head of Spanish State
    brought his own way into power
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmkaHuTvkNA
  • Soviet leader Josef Stalin begins a purge of Red Army general

    Soviet leader Josef Stalin begins a purge of Red Army general
  • Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Conference

     Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Conference
    On November 5, 1937, Adolf Hitler held a secret conference in the Reich Chancellery during which he revealed his plans for the acquisition of Lebensraum, or living space, for the German people at the expense of other nations in Europe.
  • Germany announces 'Anschluss' (union) with Austria

     Germany announces 'Anschluss' (union) with Austria
    germany knew they needed support if they were going to succed in their eveil scheems soo they paired up
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t75ldUNc2Xw
  • German military mobilizes

    German military mobilizes
    germany starts getting to goto war
  • British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich

    British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich
  • German troops occupy the Sudetenland

     German troops occupy the Sudetenland
    germany starts taking over all of the neighbooring nations
  • Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass

     Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass
    A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938, into the next day, has come to be known as Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass.
  • Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech

     Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech
    Appearing before the Nazi Reichstag (Parliament) on the sixth anniversary of his coming to power, Adolf Hitler made a speech commemorating that event and also made a public threat against the Jews.
  • Nazis take Czechoslovakia

  • Spanish Civil war ends

    Spanish Civil war ends
  • Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy

  • Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty

  • Nazis and Soviets sign Pact

     Nazis and Soviets sign Pact
    Soviet Russia' Foreign Minister Molotov signs the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact while German Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop and Soviet leader Josef Stalin look on, while standing under a portrait of Lenin – August 23, 1939. News of the Pact stunned the world and paved the way for the beginning of World War II with Hitler assured his troops would not have to fight a war on two fronts.
  • British fleet mobilizes; Civilian evacuations begin from London

  • Nazis invade Poland

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

  • British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy

  • United States proclaims its neutrality; German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland

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

  • Soviets invade Poland

  • Warsaw surrenders to Nazis; Reinhard Heydrich becomes the leader of new Reich Main Security Office (RSHA).

     Warsaw surrenders to Nazis; Reinhard Heydrich becomes the leader of new Reich Main Security Office (RSHA).
    German troops stage a victory parade through the streets of Warsaw, Poland. September 1939.
  • Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland

  • Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany

  • Assassination attempt on Hitler fails

  • Soviets attack Finland

  • Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations

    Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations
    russians arent treated nicely for their actions
  • Rationing begins in Britain

  • Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviets.

  • Germans bomb Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland

  • Nazis invade Denmark and Norway

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

  • Holland surrenders to the Nazis

  • Evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk begins

  • Belgium surrenders to the Nazis

  • Germans bomb Paris; Dunkirk evacuation ends

    Germans bomb Paris; Dunkirk evacuation ends
    British soldiers captured by the Germans at Dunkirk, France, in June 1940.
  • Norway surrenders to the Nazis; Italy declares war on Britain and France

  • Germans enter Paris

     Germans enter Paris
    A French man weeps as the Nazis march into Paris, June 14, 1940, beginning a four-year occupation of the 'City of Lights.'
    (Photo credit: U.S. National Archives)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz-D1N-cKbk
  • Marshal Pétain becomes French Prime Minister

  • Hitler and Mussolini meet in Munich; Soviets begin occupation of the Baltic States

    Adolf Hitler and Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini together in Munich, June 18, 1940.
  • France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany

  • Hitler tours Paris

  • Britain recognizes General Charles de Gaulle as the Free French leader

  • German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic

  • French Vichy government breaks off relations with Britain

  • Battle of Britain begins

  • Soviets take Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia

  • Italians occupy British Somaliland in East Africa

  • German bombing offensive against airfields and factories in England

  • Air battles and daylight raids over Britain

  • Hitler declares a blockade of the British Isles

  • First German air raids on Central London