3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 timeline

By wiesb

  • Japan confiscates Manchuria in Northeast China.

  • Jews become isolated and discriminated from now on

  • Race laws against Jews are instated

    Jews can no longer marry people 'with German blood'.

  • Japan signs an alliance with Germany and Italy.

  • Herschel Grynszpan receives a letter from his parents

    German Jew Herschel Grynszpan receives a letter from his parents while living with his uncle in Paris because of his parents' anti-Semitism. His parents had been forced into lorries while people were shouting 'Jews get out'.

  • Nazis start persecuting Jews in other occupied countries.

    Jews have to wear the Star of David on their clothing.

  • British and French declare war on Germany

    A German radio station near the Polish border was attacked. News announced that Polish soldiers had killed Germans. Hours later the German army invades Poland and Hitler blames the Polish people. He was lying. The British and French didn't believe him, and declared war.
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    World War 2

    Second world war in Europe

  • Germany occupies Denmark and Norway

  • Hitler starts a blitzkreig against the Netherlands, Belgium and France

  • German occupation of the Netherlands starts

  • Labour unions are synchronised

    The labour unions are headed by a Nazi and had to propagate Nazi ideology.

  • A group of Jews fight back, killing a member of the NSB.

    Two days after this the Germans arrest 400 Jews in razzias.

  • Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union kicks off

  • The US joins the British and the Russians

  • Japan attacks the US

    In less than two hours Japan destroyed a big part of the American war fleet: almost 2500 men died.

  • Wannsee Conference takes place

    Fifteen Nazis made the final decisions about extermination camps for Jews. They determined who was eligible for deportation to the extermination camps.

  • Jews everywhere in Europe are brought to transit camps and extermination camps.

    Most were immediately gassed.

  • The Japanese advance is stopped.

    The Americans recover quickly.

  • Germans surrender

  • All Dutch people are made to hand in their radios.

    All Dutch people are made to hand in their radios to prevent them from listening to the British BBC or Radio Orange.

  • D-Day

    British and Americans start invasion of Western Europe. Troops were put ashore on the beaches of Normandy.

  • American bombers start attacking Japanese cities from aircraft carriers

    Japan resorts to kamikazes - president Truman forces Japan into surrendering wth the use of a terrible new weapon: the atomic bomb.

  • The Allies conquer Antwerp.

  • Maastricht becomes the first large Dutch city to be liberated.

  • Attack on SS leader Hans Rauter.

    Hans Rauter survives the attack, but 661 men and boys from Putten are transported to concentration camps; 540 of them are killed.

  • Red Army invades Germany

  • Western Allies cross the Rhine and go deep into Germany

  • East and North of the Netherlands are liberated by Canadian troops.

  • Hitler commmits suicide

    Hitler shoots himself in the head when the Russians are taking Berlin.

  • The German surrender is accepted

    Two days later the Allies entered the cities in the western part of the country.

  • Capitulation signed by Germany

  • WW2 ends

    Japan surrenders after two atomic bombs from the US.