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Presidential election

Mar 13, 1932

Presidential election in Germany gives 30.1 percent of the vote to Adolf Hitler.Field Marshall Hindenburg, receives 49.6 percent.

Re-Election

Apr 10, 1932

50 percent was required by German law for the election of a president, a re-run presidential election was held again and Hindenburg won with 53 percent of the vote. Adolf Hitler increases his popular vote to 36.8 percent

Adolph Hitler

Mar 25, 1933

Hitler seizes power in Germany, Hindenburg is reduced to a figure head.

Germany

Oct 21, 1933

Germany withdraws from the League of Nations

Pro-Nazi rally

Apr 7, 1934

Several thousand Americans attend a pro-Nazi rally in Queens, New York

Nuremberg Laws

Sep 5, 1935

In Germany, the first Nuremberg Laws are paased revoking citizenship from Jews and prohibiting them from marrying non-Jews

War

Jul 17, 1936

Spanish Civil War begins

Italy-Ethiopia

Oct 10, 1936

Italy invades Ethiopia. In the United States, the first Neutrality Acts are passed authorizing the president to dent Americans firms the right to sell or shup munitions to belligerent nations.

Signing

Nov 25, 1936

Japan and germany sign Anti-Comiterm Pact.

The Rape of Nanjing

May 10, 1937

The systematic rape, torture, and murder of more than 300,00 Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers.

Germany-Japan

Nov 25, 1937

Germany signs military agreement with Japan

Jews

Apr 21, 1938

Jews eliminated from the economy in Germany. Their assets can be seized.

France and Britain agreement

May 10, 1938

France and Britain enact a policy of appeasement, agreeing to the German annexation of Sudenten, Czecholslovakia.

Jewish refugee ship

Jun 17, 1939

The Jewish refugee ship the St. Louis arrives in Belgium after being denied access to Cuba and the United States. Most of the passengers are eventualyl murdered by the Nazis.

Germany invasion

Sep 1, 1939

Germany invades Poland from the west

Invasions

May 10, 1940

Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg are invaded by Germany. British troops enter Belgium.

War

Jun 10, 1940

Italy declares war on Britain and France

Murders

Jun 1, 1941

Over 62,000 Jews are murdered in western Russia.

Military conscription

Dec 19, 1941

United States institutes extended military conscription for men ages 20-44

Emergency Price Control Act

Jan 30, 1942

In the U.S., the Emergency Price Control Act fixes price ceilings and controls rents in areas of defense production

Vichy France

Nov 11, 1942

Germans enter unoccupied zone of Vichy France

Bombing of Hamburg

May 10, 1943

The end of eight days of intensive bombing of Hamburg, Germany by the Allies.

Soviet Union

Nov 28, 1943

Teheran conference between the Big Three: Churchill, FDR, and Joseph Stalin, of the Soviet Union.

Soviet troops

Apr 10, 1944

Soviet troops experience success against the Germans in the Crimea.

Presidency

Nov 7, 1944

FDR is elected for his fourth term; Harry S Truman replaces Henry Wallace as his vice-president.

German forces

May 4, 1945

German forces in Holland, North-West Germany, and Denmark surrender

Atomic Bombs

Jul 16, 1945

Potsdam conference ends. Meanwhile, the first atomic bomb is exploded in a test at Alamorgordo, New Mexico.