WWII Timeline

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

Jul 29, 1921

Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch

Nov 8, 1923

A failed takeover of the government in Bavaria. Hitler was convicted of treason and sentenced to prison for five years.

Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" was published

Jul 18, 1925

Nazis are elected by the Germans and making them the second largest political party in Germany

Sep 14, 1930

FDR is ected as president of the United States

Nov 8, 1932

Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

German Reichstag burns

Feb 27, 1933

The first concentration camp opened, ourside of Berlin

Mar 12, 1933

Hitler gets dictorial power because of the Enabling Act

Mar 23, 1933

The Nazi Party is declared to be the only political party of Germany

Jul 14, 1933

The rights of German Jews were removed by Nuremberg Race Laws

Sep 15, 1935

The secret police of Germany (Gestapo) are placed above the law

Feb 10, 1936

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Rhineland is occupied by the German troops

Mar 7, 1936

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Austria and Gemany create union (Anschluss)

Mar 12, 1938

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Germany occupies the Sudetenland (Northwestern Czechoslovakia)

Oct 15, 1938

Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass)

Nov 9, 1938

The Nazis take over Czechoslovakia

Mar 15, 1939

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Nazis sign a Pact with Italy ('Pact of Steel')

May 22, 1939

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Nazis sign a Pact with the Soviets

Aug 23, 1939

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Nazis invade Poland

Sep 1, 1939

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France, Britian, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany

Sep 3, 1939

Canada declares war on Germany

Sep 10, 1939

oland is divided between the Soviets and the Germans

Sep 29, 1939

Denmark and Norway is invaded by the Nazis

Apr 9, 1940

Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands

May 10, 1940

Italy declares war on Britian and France

Jun 10, 1940

Italy invades Egypt

Sep 13, 1940

Tripartite (Axis) PAct is signed by Germany, Japan, and Italy

Sep 27, 1940

Germany attacks Soviet Union

Jun 22, 1941

First experimental use of gas chambers in Auschwitz

Sep 3, 1941

Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

U.S. and Britian declare war on Japan

Dec 8, 1941

Germany declares war on the United States

Dec 11, 1941

Battle of Stalingrad begins

Sep 13, 1942

Americans begin bombing Germany

Jan 27, 1943

Germans surrender at Stalingrad, Germany loses sixth army

Feb 2, 1943

Allies take tunisia

May 7, 1943

German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa

May 13, 1943

Large British air raid on Berlin

Nov 18, 1943

Germans surrender in the Crimea

May 15, 1944

D-Day

Jun 6, 1944

Liberation of the first concentration camp

Jul 24, 1944

Liberation of Paris

Aug 25, 1944

German forces in the Ruhr surrender

Apr 18, 1945

Mussolini dies

Apr 28, 1945

Adolf Hitler commits suicide

Apr 30, 1945

Surrender of all german forces

May 7, 1945

Allies divide up Germany and Berlin, then take over the government

Jun 5, 1945

The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan

Aug 6, 1945

Second atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan

Aug 9, 1945

Japanese sign the surrender agreement

Sep 2, 1945

Nuremberg war crime trials begin

Nov 20, 1945