Hitler and Stalin

By LeAnn21

  • Stalin is born

  • Hitler is born in Austria

    Hitler is born in Braunau Am Inn, Austria. His parents, Alois and Klara, come from poor peasant families.

  • Hitler begins military service in WW1

    After ignoring his army orders in 1909 because of his hate for Austria and later being rejected by the Austrian army for being too weak, Hitler volunteers for Germany. With a war happening, medical examinations were not a strict and Hitler is accepted.

  • Hitler volunteers to identify Socialist Republic sympathizers.

    In Munich, Hitler convinces the German army that he is against socialism and avoids arrest. He helps the army find other soldiers who did support socialism and he is recruited to be a political officer.

  • Hitler is voted leader of the new Nazi party

    Hitler wins an election and becomes the leader of new political party, nicknamed Nazi. The party's official name is National Socialist German Workers Party and it believes that equality is only for Germans, not Jews or immigrants.

  • Lenin dies and Stalin survives the reading of the Testament by the Central Committee in May.

  • Hitler is imprisoned for 5 years for treason

    The Nazis unsuccessfully try to take over the German government and Hitler is sentenced to prison for five years for treason. While there, he dictates his autobiography and book of political ideas, "Mein Kampf," to Rudolph Hess.

  • Stalin publicly attacks Trotsky for being unfaithful to "Leninism."

  • first volume of Mein Kampf is published

  • Allied with Bukharin and the "Rightists," Stalin begins attacks on Zinoviev.

  • Beginning of the first Five-Year Plan

  • Stalin announces "liquidation of the kulaks as a class"; collectivization begins in earnest.

  • The Reichstag Fire

  • The Jewish holocaust begins

    The Nazis, led by Hitler, begin to systematically eliminate Jews from Eastern Europe. At least six million Jews will be killed, many in brutal concentration camps, before the Holocaust ends in 1945.

  • The Night of the long Knives

    The Night of the Long Knives, in June 1934, saw the wiping out of the SA's leadership and others who had angered Hitler in the recent past in Nazi Germany. After this date, the SS lead by Heinrich Himmler was to become far more powerful in Nazi Germany.

  • Hitler becomes Germany's dictator

    After being named chancellor of Germany in 1933, a presidential election is held in 1934 that Hitler easily wins, partially because he vows to fight communism. He is now firmly in power as dictator of Germany with the title of Fuhrer.

  • Murder, by Stalin's agents, of Sergei Kirov.

  • Purge of the Red army begins

  • Nazi-Soviet Pact is signed in Moscow

  • Outbreak of World War II

  • Hitler invades Soviet Union

  • Hitler declares war on the US

    Four days after Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, Hitler declares war against the U.S. Germany had no agreement with Japan, but Hitler likes the fact that he is now the center of World War II, the biggest war the world has ever seen.

  • Battle of Stalingrad.

    Germans are defeated, marking the turning point in the war.

  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Germans are defeated, marking the turning point in the war.

  • Hitler survives assassination attempt

    Hitler escapes serious injury when a bomb explodes at his headquarters in Berlin. It is the third assassination attempt against Hitler. A senior officer is blamed for planting the bomb.

  • Hitler orders the destruction of Germany's infrastructure

    Hitler decides that since Germany has lost the war, the country does not deserve to survive. He orders the destruction of the railroads, highways, and other important features of German industry, but the order is not obeyed.

  • Hitler commits suicide in Berliin

    Probably trying to avoid being captured by Soviet troops, Hitler kills himself. He commits suicide by shooting himself in the head while biting down on a poisonous cyanide capsule.

  • Hitler dies

    Hitler commits suicude along with his new wife (they were married a day before) in a bunker

  • Communists seize power in Czechoslovakia, cementing Soviet control of Eastern Europe.

  • The Berlin Airlift started

    After World War II, the Allies partitioned the defeated Germany into a Soviet-occupied zone, an American-occupied zone, a British-occupied zone and a French-occupied zone.

  • Soviets blockade East Berlin.

  • Soviets explode thier first A-Bomb

  • Sino-Soviet Treaty signed

  • Death of Stalin