Illustrated Timeline

By Sean5066

  • Nuremberg Racial Laws

    Nuremberg Racial Laws
    The first two laws comprising the Nuremberg Race Laws were: "The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor" (regarding Jewish marriage) and "The Reich Citizenship Law" (designating Jews as subjects).

  • Annexation of the Rhineland, Austria, and Czechoslovakia

    Annexation of the Rhineland, Austria, and Czechoslovakia
    The German occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945) began with the German annexation of Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions, formerly being part of German-Austria

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    Kristallnacht , also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938

  • The creation of the SS and the Einsatzgruppe

    The creation of the SS and the Einsatzgruppe
    Were responsible for mass killings, primarily by shooting, during World War II

  • The Invasion of Poland

    The Invasion of Poland
    The Soviet invasion of Poland was a Soviet military operation that started without a formal declaration of war on 17 September 1939. On that morning, 16 days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east.

  • The fall of Paris

    The fall of Paris
    The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries in 1940 during the Second World War. In six weeks from 10 May 1940, German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end until 6 June 1944

  • The Battle of Britain

    The Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force

  • The creation of the Warsaw ghetto

    The creation of the Warsaw ghetto
    The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of all the Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II.

  • The Wannsee Conference

    The Wannsee Conference
    The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942 during World War II.

  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad
    The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia