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The Great Depression Starts
It was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression -
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
Hitler’s emergence as chancellor on January 30, 1933, marked a crucial turning point for Germany and, ultimately, for the world. His plan, embraced by much of the German population, was to do away with politics and make Germany a powerful, unified one-party state.
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1st concentration camp in Germany
The Dachau concentration camp was established in March 1933. It was the first regular concentration camp established by the National Socialist (Nazi) government. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005214 -
German troops occupy Rhineland
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005439 -
Japan invades China
Sino-Japanese War, conflict that broke out when China began full-scale resistance to the expansion of Japanese influence in its territory. In an effort to unseat the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek. http://factsanddetails.com/asian/ca67/sub426/entry-5329.html -
Germany annexes Austria (Anschluss)
In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany. http://all-len-all.com/on-this-day-march-12-1938-germany-invades-austria-in-the-anschluss/ -
Germany invades Poland
One of Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy initiatives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1934. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.phpModuleId=10005070 -
France falls to the Nazis
Hitler’s forces entered a largely deserted Paris on 14 June, over two million Parisians having fled south. Soon the swastika flag was flying over France. http://20357-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Hitler-in-Paris.jpg -
First peacetime draft in U.S. history
The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 enacted September 16, 1940 was the first peacetime conscription in United States history. http://www.historylink.org/File/5572 -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor; U.S. enters war
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. https://www.britannica.com/event/Pearl-Harbor-attack -
D-Day
The Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II. https://www.dday.org/history/d-day-the-invasion/overview.html -
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference, major World War II conference of the three chief Allied leaders, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, which met at Yalta in Crimea to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany. https://www.britannica.com/event/Yalta-Conference -
Hitler commits suicide
As Soviet forces near his command bunker in central Berlin on April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler commits suicide. Berlin falls to the Soviets within days. -
Nuremberg War Crimes trials begin
On this day in 1945, a series of trials of accused Nazi war criminals, conducted by a U.S., French, and Soviet military tribunal based in Nuremberg, Germany, begins. Twenty-four former Nazi officials were trialed. http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/November/Nuremberg-Trials-Begin.html
