WWII

  • Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party.

  • Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch

  • Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" published

  • Germany admitted to League of Nations

  • Stock Market on Wall Street crashes

  • Franklin Roosevelt elected President of the United States

  • 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 burn books in Germany

  • Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party

  • Germany quits the League of Nations

  • The Nazi "Night of the Long Knives."

  • German President Hindenburg dies

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany

  • German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws

  • The German Gestapo is placed above the law

  • German troops occupy the Rhineland

  • Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia

  • Civil war erupts in Spain

  • British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich

  • Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass

  • Spanish Civil war ends

  • Soviet leader Josef Stalin begins a purge of Red Army generals

  • Nazis invade Poland

  • Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany

  • Hitler declares war on the United States

  • D-Day landings on the northern coast of France

  • Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies