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History of WWII

By gonzalez.640
  • Adolf Hitler is named chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler is named chancellor of Germany

    President Von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler, leader of führer of the National Socialist German Workers Party, as chancellor of Germany
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    World War II Timespan

  • Dachau Concentration Camp Established

    Dachau Concentration Camp Established

  • The Enabling Act is passed

    The Enabling Act passed—powers of legislation pass to Hitler’s cabinet for four years, making him virtual dictator.

  • Jews Limited In Public Schools

    The Law against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities limits the number of Jewish students in public schools.

  • Hitler withdraws from the League of Nations

  • Revision of Paragraph 175

    Revision of Paragraphs 175 facilitates the systematic persecution of homosexual men in Nazi Germany.
  • Olympic Games Open in Berlin

    Olympic Games Open in Berlin

    The Nazi dictatorship covers up its racist character while hosting the summer games.
  • Buchenwald Concentration Camp Opens

    Buchenwald Concentration Camp Opens

    Buchenwald becomes one of the largest concentration camps established within the old German borders of 1937.
  • WORLD WAR II BEGINS

    WORLD WAR II BEGINS

    Germany invades Poland, inciting Poland’s allies Britain and France to declare war on Germany.
  • Paris Falls To Nazis

    Paris Falls To Nazis

    Paris falls to German forces. France capitulates 11 days later.
  • Pearl Harbor Attacked

    Pearl Harbor Attacked

    Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, starting war with the US. Sensing weakness, Hitler declares war on America 4 days later.

  • First American forces arrive in Great Britain

  • Hitler orders the execution of all captured British commandos

  • First bombing raid by Americans on Germany

  • German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa

  • Germans withdraw to the Adolf Hitler Line

  • Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland

  • Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz

  • Soviet troops begin their final attack on Berlin; Americans enter Nuremberg

  • Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans; Allies take Venice

  • Hitler commits suicide

  • Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government

  • First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan.

  • United Nations is born

  • Nuremberg war crimes trials begin