European Timeline

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    The Holocaust

    Adolf Hitler facilitated the Holocaust Involved imprisoning jews and non jews ( those who did not have blonde hair and blue eyes) into concentration camps and gas chambers. Germany, Jews and Americans were involved in the holocaust Americans stopped the germans from killing the jews
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    World War 2

    In 1933 the German people voted for a leader named Adolf Hitler, who led a political party in Germany called the National Socialists or Nazis. Hitler promised to make his country great again and quickly began to arm Germany again and to seize land from other countries. When Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, France and Britain declared war on Germany After conquering Poland, Germany attacked France. France fell in June 1940, and soon the Nazis overran most of the rest of Europe and North Africa.
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    The Cold War

    Economic struggle between USA and USSR Rivalry between two allies which involved tension Espionage was involved by the USA and USSR via submarines and satellite