Planes

Hitler's Timeline

By swaggerhut

  • Hitler's Birth

    Historical significance:
    - this was the day when one of the world's grestest dictator was born.
    - on the evening of April 20, 1889, he was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border from German Bavaria.

  • Death of hitler's father, Alois

    Historical significance:
    - it was one of the depressed day in hitler's life when his father Alois Hitler died.
    - He collapsed before the wine was brought to him and died within minutes from a lung hemorrhage. It was not the first one he had suffered.

  • Klara Hitler's Death

    historical significance:
    - Klara Hitler dies of cancer.
    - The loss of his mother affects Hitler deeply and it is said that he has a photo of her in his pocket when he dies.

  • Hitler moves to Vienna.

    historical significance:
    - At the age of 17, Hitler moves to Vienna.
    - He plans to attend art school there but when he is rejected by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts for the second time in October, he gives up on his dream.
  • Period: to

    Hitler begins military service in World War I.

    Cause and effect
    - 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 blinded by mustard gas.

    casue and effect
    - While fighting the British, Hitler is blinded by a mustard gas attack.
    effect :
    - He regains his sight but while he is recovering he is deeply depressed and spends much of his time crying.

  • Hitler is elected the leader of the new Nazi Party.

    cause effect:
    - Adolf hitler was introduced as Fuhrer og the Nazi Party, marking the the first time that title was used publicly to adress him.
    Effect:
    - this was the turning event in Hitler's life that bring the mass movement and ruled germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945 under his leadership.

  • Hitler is sentenced to five years in prison for treason and Mein Kampf

    Casue and effect , historical significance
    The Nazis unsuccessfully try to take over the German government and Hitler is sentenced to prison for five years for treason.
    - while in prison he put energy into his book " Mein Kampf " ( My Struggles).
    - this book was the turning point for Germany's future because in this Hitler wrote the future for Germany
    - many year later in 1942 hitler said " Mein Kampf would never have written if I had not been send to prison.

  • The Jewish Holocaust begins.

    historical significance:
    - 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.

  • Hitler becomes Germany's dictator.

    historical significance:
    - 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.

  • Munich Agreement

    historical significance :
    Hitler signs the “Munich Agreement” with the leaders of England, France and Italy.
    This act of so-called Allied “appeasement” paved the way for the German invasion of Czechoslovakia.

  • Hitler is named Time magazine's "Man of the Year."

    historical significance:
    - Due to his political dominance and being such as central figure in the world, Time magazine names Hitler as "Man of the Year."
    - The magazine describes the actions of his Nazi Party as "ruthless."

  • Hitlers birthday

    historical significance:
    - Hitler’s 50th birthday featuring the largest military parade in Third Reich history (about 50,000 troops took part.
    - Hitler is given an Alpine retreat, later dubbed the “Eagle’s Nest”, as a birthday present from his generals.
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    Nazis occupation

    historical significance:
    - The Nazis occupy Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France.
    - Romania and Yugoslavia were invaded.

  • Hitler declares war against the United States.

    historical significance:
    - 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.

  • Hitler survives an assassination attempt.

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

  • Hitler orders the destruction of the Germany's infrastructure.

    cause and effect:
    - Hitler decides that since Germany has lost the war, the country does not deserve to survive.
    effect:
    - 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 Berlin.

    historical significance:
    - 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