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Adolf Hitler was born
Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria. He was the fourth of six children to Alois Hitler and Klara Pölzl. -
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Hitlers younger brother Edmund dies at age 2
brother dies of measels Adolf was 10 years old.It deeply affected Hitler -
Hitler's father died
Hitler did poorly in school, hoping that once his father saw the little progress he was making at the technical school he would let him devote himself to his dream. -
Hitler's mother died
Klara Hitler, 46, was operated on and had one of her breasts removed. But the operation was too late. Her illness, malignant cancer, would slowly ravage her body. -
First turning point - Hitler moved to Munich (cause and effect)
After his mother's death, no one was willing or able to support hitler. So, he moved and sold his paintings for living. This is an example of cause and effect because it made him join the army, which eventually made him the leader of nazis, and left his marks on the world. -
received the wound badge
Hitler served as a runner on the Western Front in France and Belgium in the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16.During the Battle of the Somme in October 1916, he was wounded either in the groin area or the left thigh by a shell that had exploded in the dispatch runners' dugout -
awarded the iron cross first class in ww1
He received the Iron Cross, First Class,A decoration rarely awarded to one of Hitler's rank. Hitler's post at regimental headquarters, where he had frequent interactions with senior officers, may have helped him receive this decoration. -
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Re-Building the Nazi Party
Hitler was released from Landsberg prison in December 1924 after serving only six months of his sentence. At that time, the Nazi Party and its associated newspapers were banned by the government and Hitler himself was forbidden from making public speeches. The support for National Socialism was waning throughout Germany. This is an example of historical signifance because this made hitler the dictator of Germany, through which he showed his cruelty against Jews -
Hitler's book Mein Kampf is published
Hitler began the dictation of the book while imprisoned for what he considered to be "political crimes" . Mein Kampf is a book by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. It's an autobiography with an exposition of Hitler's political ideology. Mein Kampf in English means My Struggle or My Battle -
Hitler sworn in as Chancellor of Germany
Hindenburg agreed to appoint Hitler as chancellor after two parliamentary elections -
Holocaust begins, nazis instigate their first act against German Jews
Holocaust was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler. -
Nazi party was declared the only legal party in Germany
By the end of June, the other parties had been dissolved, and with the help of the SA, Hitler pressured his nominal coalition partner, Hugenberg, into resigning. On 14 July 1933 Hitler's Nazi Party was declared the only legal political party in Germany. -
Second Turning Point - Hitler formally named Fuhrer (historical significance)
On 2 August 1934 President von Hindenburg died. The previous day, the cabinet had enacted a law to take effect upon Hindenburg's death which abolished the office of president and combined its powers with those of the chancellor. Hitler thus became head of state as well as head of government, and was formally named as Führer. It is a turning point because it gave him a way to represent his hatred against Jews. -
Hitler presented two laws known as the Nuremberg Laws
A person with one or two Jewish grandparents was a Mischling, a crossbreed, of "mixed blood" .The laws deprived Jews of German citizenship and prohibited marriage between Jews and other Germans.The laws also included a ban on sexual intercourse between people defined as "Jews" and non-Jewish Germans and prevented "Jews" from participating in German civic life. -
Non-agression pact was signed between Hitler and Stalin
This agreement stated that the two countries - Germany and the Soviet Union - would not attack each other. -
Heinrich Himmler ordered the construction of Auschwitz
It was the largest of the German concentration camps -
3 million German troops attack the soviet union
three million German troops attacked the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. -
Hitler declares war on the United States
On 7 December 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Four days later, Hitler formally declared war against the United States -
Soviet forces attack Berlin
The Battle in Berlin lasted from 20 April 1945 until the morning of 2 May. -
Hitler shot himself.
Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin.His wife Eva (née Braun), committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide
