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History of the Holocaust

By Arness Toney
  • Great depression

    Great depression

    Stock market crashed

  • Hitler becomes Fuhrer

    Hitler becomes Fuhrer when chancellorship and presidency are united

  • FDR reelected president

    President Roosevelt is re-elected. President Roosevelt is re-elected for a second term.

  • Germany discovered nuclear fission

    Germany-nuclear fission discovered

  • D-day

    battle the bulge

  • Churchill becomes british Prime Minister

    Winston Churchill Becomes british prime minister

  • war bond

    President Roosevelt buys the first War Bond.

  • battle of Midway

    American naval victory at Battle of Midway, in June, marks turning point in Pacific War.

  • fight to death

    Adolf Hitler orders German troops at Stalingrad to fight to the death.

  • Jewish citizens

    Jewish patients, nurses and doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

  • Air attack

    1st US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)

  • US marine

    4th US marine division conquers Roi, Marshall Islands.

  • first set foot

    Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory.

  • Truman

    Truman becomes president

  • liberated

    German concetration camps liberated