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ww1 ends with germanies defeat
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signing the treaty of versailes
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adolf hitler becomes the ruler over the nazis
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hitlers beer hall putsh
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hitlers book was published
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germany admitted to league of nations
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stock market on wall street crashes
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germanz elect nazis
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Franklen roosevelt elected president of the united states
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hitler becomes chancellor of germany
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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
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The German Reichstag burns.
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- First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin.
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Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power.
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Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops.
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Nazis burn books in Germany.
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Nazis open Dachau concentration camp.
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Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party.
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Germany quits the League of Nations.
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the nazi night of the long knives
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hitler violates the treaty of versailles
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gestapo is placed above the law
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The German Gestapo is placed above the law.
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German troops occupy the Rhineland.
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Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia.
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Civil war erupts in Spain.
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Olympic games begin in Berlin.
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Franco declared head of Spanish State.
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soviet union leader runs a purge
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germany announces Anschluss with austria
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hitler threatens jews
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Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.
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Nazis take Czechoslovakia.
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nazis take Czechoslowvakia
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spanish civil war ends
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Spanish Civil war ends.
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nazis sign pact of steel with italy
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Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy.
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nazis and soveits sign pact
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Nazis and Soviets sign Pact.
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Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty.
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britian and poland sign a mutual assistance treaty
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british fleets mobilizes;Civillian evacuations begin from london
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British fleet mobilizes; Civilian evacuations begin from London.
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nazis invade poland
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britain,france,australia and new zealand declare war on germany
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british royal air force attacks german navy
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us proclaims nuetrality;german troops cross the vistula river in poland
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canada declares war on germany;battle of the atlantic begins
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sovets invade poland
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warsaw surrenders to nazis;reinhard heydrich becomes the leader of RSHA
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nazis and soveits divide poland
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assassanation atempt of hitler fails
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soviets attack fineland
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soviet union exp-elled from the league of nations
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RATIONING BEGINS IN BRITIAN
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rationing begins in britain
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fineland signs a peace treaty with soviets
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finland signs a peace treaty with soveits
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germasns bomb scapa glow naval base near scotland
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germans bom scapa flow naval base near scotland
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nazis invade denmark and norway
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nazis invade denmark and norway
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nazis invade france
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hollands surrenders to the nazis
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evacuation of allied troops from dunkirk begins
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belgium surrenders to the nazis
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germans bomb paris;dunkirk evacuation ends
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germans bomb paris;dunkirk evacuation ends
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norway surrenders to the nazis;italy declares war on britian and france
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noraway surrenders to the nazis;italy declares war on britain and france
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germans enter paris
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hitler tours paris
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Britain recognizes General Charles de Gaulle as the Free French leader.
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German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic.
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French Vichy government breaks off relations with Britain.
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Battle of Britain begins
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Soviets take Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
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Italians occupy British Somaliland in East Africa.
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German bombing offensive against airfields and factories in England.
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Air battles and daylight raids over Britain.
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Hitler declares a blockade of the British Isles.
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First German air raids on Central London.
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Hitler plans Operation Sea Lion (the invasion of Britain).
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German Blitz against Britain begins.
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Italians invade Egypt.
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SS Leader Heydrich holds the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question.
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Tobruk in North Africa falls to the British and Australians
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British forces advance into Italian Somaliland in East Africa.
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German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, North Africa.
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First units of German 'Afrika Korps' arrive in North Africa.
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British forces arrive in Greece.
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President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act.
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A coup in Yugoslavia overthrows the pro-Axis government.
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Pro-Axis regime set up in Iraq.
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Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia.
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Rommel attacks Tobruk.
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Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis.
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Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations.
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Germans begin a U-boat offensive along east coast of USA.
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Rommel's counter-offensive from El Agheila begins.
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German air raids begin against cathedral cities in Britain.
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German summer offensive begins in the Crimea.
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Rommel begins an offensive against the Gazala Line.
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SS Leader Heydrich attacked in Prague.
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SS Leader Heydrich attacked in Prague.
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Germans begin a withdrawal from the Caucasus.
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Soviets begin an offensive against the Germans in Stalingrad.
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Montgomery's Eighth Army takes Tripoli.
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First bombing raid by Americans on Germany (at Wilhelmshaven).
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Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
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Soviet troops take Kursk.
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Soviets re-take Kharkov.
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Nazis arrest White Rose resistance leaders in Munich.
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Germans begin a withdrawal from Tunisia, Africa.
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Germans re-capture Kharkov.
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Battle of Atlantic climaxes with 27 merchant ships sunk by German U-boats.
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First attack toward Cassino, Italy.
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Allies land at Anzio in Italy.
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Leningrad relieved after a 900-day siege.
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Allies bomb the monastery at Monte Cassino.
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Germans counter-attack against the Anzio beachhead.
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Second Allied attempt to capture Monte Cassino begins
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U.S. troops reach st lo france
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assasination falis to try and kill hitler
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Assassination attempt by German Army officers against Hitler fails.
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- Soviet troops liberate first concentration camp at Majdanek.
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-Soviet troops liberate first concentration camp at Majdanek.
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Operation Cobra (U.S. troops break out west of St. Lô).
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Germans withdraw from the Ardennes.
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Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz.
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Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Yalta.
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- Dresden is destroyed by a firestorm after Allied bombing raids.
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Last German offensive of the war begins to defend oil fields in Hungary.
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Allies take Cologne and establish a bridge across the Rhine at Remagen.
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Soviet troops capture Danzig.
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First British air raid on Berlin.
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First American forces arrive in Great Britain.