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Time line of important facts in Europe between 1933 and 1945.
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Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany.
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Dachau concentration camp opens
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Laws for Reestablishment of the Civil Service barred Jews from holding civil service, university, and state positions.
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Gestapo established.
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Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor). Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him.
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"Nuremberg Laws": anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag
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Germans march into the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treat
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Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis
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Buchenwald concentration camp opens.
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Anschluss (incorporation of Austria): all antisemitic decrees immediately applied in Austria.
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Munich Conference: Great Britain and France agree to German occupation of the Sudetenland, previously western Czechoslovakia
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Germans occupy Czechoslovakia.
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Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed: non-aggression pact between Soviet Union and Germany.
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Beginning of World War II: Germany invades Poland.
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Germans occupy Denmark and southern Norway.
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Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France
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France surrenders
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Battle of Britain begins.
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Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis firmed.
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Germany attacks Yugoslavia and Greece; occupation follows
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June 22 Germany invades the Soviet Union
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Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
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United States declares war on Japan and Germany
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Wannsee Conference in Berlin: Heydrich outlines plan to murder Europe's Jews
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German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad
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Germany occupies Hungary
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D-Day: Allied invasion at Normandy
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Group of German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler
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Hitler commits suicide
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V-E Day: Germany surrenders; end of Third Reich
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Bombing of Hiroshima
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Bombing of Nagasaki
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V-J Day: Victory over Japan proclaimed
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Japan surrenders; end of World War II
