Hitler

A World War Two time line

  • World war one ends

    World war one ends with germany defeated and its economy shattered into a million pieces
  • League of Nations was started

    The league of nations was founded after world war one
  • Signing of the Treaty of Versailles.

  • Hitler becomes leader of the NAZI party

    Hitler becomes leader of the NAZI or National Socialist Party
  • The book Mein Kampf was published

    Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" was published. This book was soon to be like the bible to the nazis
  • Germany admitted to League of Nations.

    Germany admitted to League of Nations
  • Stock market on wall street crashes

    The wall street stock market crashes. That left germanys econamy even worse
  • Nazi's start to take over

    Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany.
  • Franklin Roosevelt was elected as presadent

    Franklin Roosevelt was elected President of the United States.
  • Hitler gained control of the goverment

    An emergency decree was signed. This gave Hitler and his party total power. He and his party could control what was written in the papers and said on the radio.
  • The first concentration camp was opened

    The first concentration camp was opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin.
  • Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power.

    Now hitler can do what ever he wants
  • Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops.

    Then you could not buy anything from jewish run shops
  • Nazis burn books in Germany.

    Nazis start burning books in Germany.
  • Nazis open Dachau concentration camp

  • The nazi party is the only party in germany

    All other pilitacal partys where closed in faver of the NAZI party
  • Germany quits the League of Nations

  • The Nazi "Night of Long Knives."

    Don't ask
  • Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss.

  • German President Hindenburg dies

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.

    By the summer of 1934, the elderly German President, Paul von Hindenburg, lay close to death at his country estate in East Prussia. He had been in failing health for several months, thus giving Adolf Hitler and the Nazis ample opportunity to make plans to capitalize on his demise.
  • Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription

  • German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws

  • The German Gestapo is placed above the law

  • German troops occupy the Rhineland.

  • The German Gestapo is placed above the law

  • Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia.

  • Civil war erupts in Spain

  • Olympic games begin in Berlin

  • Franco declared head of Spanish State

  • Soviet leader Josef Stalin begins a purge of Red Army generals.

  • Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Conference.

  • Germany announces 'Anschluss' (union) with Austria

  • German military mobilizes

  • British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich

  • German troops occupy the Sudetenland; Czech government resigns

  • Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass

  • Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech

  • Nazis take Czechoslovakia

  • Spanish Civil war ends

  • Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy

  • Nazis and Soviets sign Pact

  • Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty

  • British fleet mobilizes; Civilian evacuations begin from London.

  • Nazis invade Poland

  • Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany

  • British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy

  • United States proclaims its neutrality; German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland

  • Canada declares war on Germany; Battle of the Atlantic begins.

  • Soviets invade Poland.

  • Warsaw surrenders to Nazis; Reinhard Heydrich becomes the leader of new Reich Main Security Office (RSHA)