Adolf Hilter becomes the leader of National Socialist Party (Nazi)
New General Secretary
Start of Irish Civil War
Forming of Soviet Union
Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch
Adol Hitler is senenced to 5 years in jail for his participation in the Beer Hall Putsch
Mein Kampf published by Hitler
Treaty of Berlin
Germany enrolled in the League of Nations
Inter-marriage of Jews all time high, shows assimilation
NSDAP gets 5% of the 1928 election vote, shows growth of anti-semitic feelings
Frank B. Kellogg, US Secretary of State, signs Kellogg Briand Pact, with 63 nations (Japan, Germany, and Italy)
Stock Market Crash
Great Depression begins
France withdraws its remaining troops from the Rhineland
Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany
Japan invades Manchuria
Franklin Roosevelt eas elected as the 32nd President of the United States
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul Von Hindenburg
The German Reichstag burns
First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin, Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power
Nazi boycott Jewish owned shops
Nazis burn German books
Nazis open Dachau concentration camps
Nazi party declared Germany’s only political party
Germany quits the League of Nations
Nazis kill Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss
German President Hindenburg dies, Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany
Hitler violates Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription
German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws
Fascist Italy invades and conquers Ethiopia
In violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland
Mussolini’s Italian forces take Ethiopia
Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation and Rome-Berlin axis alliances are announced. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement
Japan invades China, initiating World War II in the Pacific
Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Conference
Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss
German military mobilizes
Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland, including the key Czechoslovak military defense positions, to Nazi Germany
Germany invaded Poland with a new military strategy called Blitzkreig, meaning "lightning war.” France and Britain declare war on Germany.November, assassination attempt on Hitler fails
Germans bomb Paris
Nazis kill 33,771 Jews at Kiev
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Germans begin U-Boat offensive along east coast of USA
Italy declares war on Germany
D-Day begins
Hiroshima bombing
U.S drops a second atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki