-
Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany
-
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
-
First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin
-
Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power
-
Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops
-
Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss
-
Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany
-
German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws
-
German troops occupy the Rhineland
-
Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Conference
-
German troops occupy the Sudetenland - Czech government resigns
-
Nazis take Czechoslovakia
-
Nazis and Soviets sign Pact
-
Nazis invade Poland
-
Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany
-
Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany
-
Nazis invade Denmark and Norway
-
Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands
-
Germans bomb Paris
-
Battle of Britain begins
-
First German air raids on London
-
First British air raid on Berlin
-
Roosevelt re-elected US President
-
Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev
-
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
-
United States and Britain declare war on Japan
-
Hitler declares war on the United States
-
Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz
-
First bombing raid by Americans on Germany at Wilhelmshaven
-
Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's army
-
German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa
-
Italy declares war on Germany
-
Germans surrender in the Crimea
-
US troops liberate Cherbourg, France
-
Soviet troops liberate first concentration camp at Majdanek
-
Massive German surrender at Aachen, Germany
-
Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz
-
Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans
-
US 7th Army liberates Dachau
-
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
-
Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government
-
First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
-
Japanese agree to unconditional surrender
-
Nuremberg war crimes trials begin
