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Treaty of Versailles signed
The Allies made Germany sign a Treaty. This Treaty includes that Germany pays for their war debts. They also can not build a very large military. This put Germany in a depression. -
Hitlers book "Mein Kampf"
"My struggle" was written by Adolf Hitler while he was in jail. In this auto biography it has many political ideas on how to rebuild Germany. He wrote many radical ideas in this book -
First Concentration camp
Dacho was the first concentration camp opened during the Holocaust. It was in march of 1933. It was first established by Heinrich Himmler. it was officially described as " The camp for political prisoners" -
Nazi Party rises to power. elected
The German people were desperate. They needed something to lean on. Hitler made many promises to help Germany and the people. -
Remilitarization of the Rhineland
German military forces entered the Rhineland. This was significant because it violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. The remilitarization changed the balance of power in Europe from France towards Germany -
Germany Invades Poland
German forces invaded Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to get back lost territory and rule Poland. World War II had begun. -
Stalingrad
four million troops went over to the Russian border. Within one month, over two and half million Russians had been killed, wounded or captured. The Germans made tremendous advances into Russia -
Pearl Harbor and The US declaring war on the Axis
December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The attack lasted two hours. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded -
Germany declares war on US
On this day, Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States, bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict.The bombing of Pearl Harbor surprised even Germany. Although Hitler had made an oral agreement with his Axis partner Japan that Germany would join a war against the United States, -
D Day
more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, The cost in lives on D-Day was high. More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded, but their sacrifice allowed more than 100,000 Soldiers to begin the slow, hard fight across Europe, to defeat Adolf Hitler’s troops
