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Presidential election in Germany gives 30.1 percent of the vote to Adolf Hitler.Field Marshall Hindenburg, receives 49.6 percent.
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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
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Hitler seizes power in Germany, Hindenburg is reduced to a figure head.
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Germany withdraws from the League of Nations
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Several thousand Americans attend a pro-Nazi rally in Queens, New York
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In Germany, the first Nuremberg Laws are paased revoking citizenship from Jews and prohibiting them from marrying non-Jews
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Spanish Civil War begins
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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.
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Japan and germany sign Anti-Comiterm Pact.
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The systematic rape, torture, and murder of more than 300,00 Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers.
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Germany signs military agreement with Japan
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Jews eliminated from the economy in Germany. Their assets can be seized.
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France and Britain enact a policy of appeasement, agreeing to the German annexation of Sudenten, Czecholslovakia.
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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.
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Germany invades Poland from the west
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Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg are invaded by Germany. British troops enter Belgium.
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Italy declares war on Britain and France
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Over 62,000 Jews are murdered in western Russia.
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United States institutes extended military conscription for men ages 20-44
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In the U.S., the Emergency Price Control Act fixes price ceilings and controls rents in areas of defense production
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Germans enter unoccupied zone of Vichy France
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The end of eight days of intensive bombing of Hamburg, Germany by the Allies.
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Teheran conference between the Big Three: Churchill, FDR, and Joseph Stalin, of the Soviet Union.
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Soviet troops experience success against the Germans in the Crimea.
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FDR is elected for his fourth term; Harry S Truman replaces Henry Wallace as his vice-president.
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German forces in Holland, North-West Germany, and Denmark surrender
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Potsdam conference ends. Meanwhile, the first atomic bomb is exploded in a test at Alamorgordo, New Mexico.
