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Franklin Roosevelt elected president
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president of the United States -
Nazi party assumes control of Germany (Adolf Hitler appointed chancellor)
The Nazi party assumes control when President Paul von Hindenburg elects Adolf Hitler as chancellor at the head of a coalition government -
Reichstag fire
The day after the German parliament building burned down due to arson, President Hindenburg issues the decree for the protection of people and the Reich. The Nazi party mostly blames this event on communists. -
Jewish Boycott
-The Nazi leadership stages an economic boycott against any jewish owned businesses and the offices of Jewish professionals. -Both a reprisal and an act of revenge for the bad international press against Germany since the appointment of Adolf Hitler and the introduction of Nazism to Germany. -
Death of Von Hindenburg
-German president Von Hindenburg dies on August 2nd, 1934 -Adolf Hitler assumes power with support from Nazi party -
Revision of Paragraph 175
German Ministry of Justice revises paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code to abolish any sort of homosexual acts, whether verbal or physical -
Olympic Games Open in Berlin
-The Summer Olympic Games open in Berlin
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Antisemitic Exhibition Opens in Munich
-Josef Goebbels, Reich propaganda minister, and Julius Streicher, editor of the antisemitic newspaper, Der Stürmer (The Attacker) open the antisemitic exhibition Der Ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew) at the library of the German Museum in Munich, Germany, -
Kristallnacht
-Nazi Party officials, members of the SA and the Hitler Youth carry out a wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms throughout Greater Germany. The rioters destroyed hundreds of synagogues, many of them burned in full view of firefighters and the German public and looted more than 7,000 Jewish-owned businesses and other commercial establishments. -
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German Annexation of Austria
On March 11–13, 1938, German troops invade Austria and incorporate Austria into the German Reich in what is known as the Anschluss. -
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Munich Agreement
September 29–30, 1938: Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement, by which Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses (the so-called Sudeten region) to Nazi Germany. German troops occupy these regions between October 1 and 10, 1938.