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President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany
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SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich
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Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss (Union)
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Kristallnacht (nationwide pogrom in Germany)
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Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement
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Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe
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The Soviet Union occupies Poland from the east
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Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway
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Germany attacks western Europe (France and the Low Countries)
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Battle of Britain begins
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Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece
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Germany invades the Soviet Union
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Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno
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Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen of Muenster denounces the “euthanasia” killing program in a public sermon
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Soviet winter counteroffensive
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declares war the next day
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1. Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declares war the next day
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Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center
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Wannsee Conference held near Berlin, Germany
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Germans complete the mass deportation of about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka
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Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary
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D-Day: Allied forces invade Normandy, France
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies
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Germany surrenders to the Soviets