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The end of Weimar
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Stock market crashed
The american stock market crashed -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President of the United States -
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Hitler Takes Control
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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
Hitler rises to a powerful position in Germany -
Germany quits the league of nations
They leave the league of nations in a protest -
Hitler Becomes Fuhrer
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Htler creates a military
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Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss
In early 1933, he shut down parliament, banned the Austrian Nazi party and assumed dictatorial powers. Suppressing the Socialist movement in February 1934, he cemented the rule of “austrofascism” through the authoritarian First of May Constitution. Dollfuss was assassinated as part of a failed coup attempt by Nazi agents in 1934. His regime was maintained through the Stresa Front until Adolf Hitler's annexing of Austria in 1938. -
Kristallnacht
(Night of the Broken Glass); Thousands of synagogues and Jewish businesses destroyed throughout Germany -
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World War, Again
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WWII starts in Europe
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end of Dunkirk
Evacuation of a British expeditionary force of over 330000 men under German fire -
U-boats
german u-boats sinks US merchant ships -
Battle of Britain
German Luftwaffe fight the United Kingdom -
Axis power formed
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President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act
America sent suppies to Britain for support -
Germany Invades Soviet Union
Germany invades the Soviet Union violating the Nonaggression Pact. U.S. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson estimates that it will take Hitler less than three months to conquer the Soviet Union. -
pearl harbor
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United States declares war on Japan
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D-Day
The day of the invasion of western Europe by Allied forces in WWII -
Normandy
British and U.S. troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, opening a “Second Front” against the Germans. -
Anne Frank
Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland -
FDR dies
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Hitler Dies
hitler commits suicide in berlin bunker -
V-E Day
The day of victory in Europe for the Allies in WWII -
V-J Day
The day Japan accepted the Allied powers surrender terms in WWII -
Nuremberg trails begin
The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, in 1945–46, at the Palace of Justice. The first and best known of these trials was the Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal (IMT), which tried 25 of -
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the aftermath
