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Adolf Hitler assumes control of National Socialist German Workers (Nazi) Party
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Wall Street Stock Market crashes
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected President of the United States
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Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg
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Enabling Act passed by Reichstag; Hitler assumes dictatorial power
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Nazi party declared official party of Germany; all other parties banned
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Germany quits League of Nations
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German President Paul von Hindenburg dies
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Hitler combines the offices of president and chancellor; assumes the title of fuehrer
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Josef Stalin begins purge of Red Army
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Germany invades Austria; Anschluss (union) proclaimed
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Germany invades Austria; Anschluss (union) proclaimed
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Germany invades Austria; Anschluss (union) proclaimed
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Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
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Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
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West German troops occupy the rest of Czechoslovakia in violation of Munich Agreement
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West German troops occupy the rest of Czechoslovakia in violation of Munich Agreement
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German Army invades Poland
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Britain and France declare war on Germany
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Red Army invades Poland in accordance with Nazi-Soviet Pact
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Warsaw falls to the Nazis
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Red Army attacks Finland
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German Army invades Denmark and Norway
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German Army invades France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill appointed British Prime Minister
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Holland capitulates to Nazis
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"Miracle at Dunkirk"
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Battle of Britain begins
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Planning begins for "Final Solution," the systematic destruction of the Jews
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Jews order to wear yellow Star of David
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German SS mass murders Russian Jews at Kiev
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Roosevelt gives "Day of Infamy" speech; United States and Britain declare war on Japan
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Germany declares war on the United States
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Hitler assumes post of Commander in Chief of German Army
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Mass gassing of Jews begins at Auschwitz
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American citizens of Japanese descent forced into "relocation centers"
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Nazis order destruction of Polish ghettos
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"Big Three" of Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill meet at Tehran
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D-Day: invasion of Europe begins with Allied landings at Normandy
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Hitler survives assassination attempt
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Paris liberated
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Brussels liberated
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Soviets liberate Auschwitz
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Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta Conference
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4/30/1945 Adolf Hitler and wife Eva Braun commit suicide in Chancellery bunker