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Vladek was drafted into the military despite his father convincing him to starve himself in order to keep him out of the war. (Maus)
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Stalin gives a speech about potential war.
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Vladek begins fighting in the military and is captured by the Germans and kept as a prisoner. (Maus)
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Beginning of full-scale European war.
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Canada joined to help the ally powers with their extremely powerful air force.
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Vladek was released from the labor camp and got to home to his family. (Maus)
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Elie begins to study the Kabbalah despite the fact his father thinks he's too young. (Night)
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The Japanese bomb Hawaiian naval base Pearl Harbor and destroy various war ships.
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They meet and begin talking. (Night)
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Hitler begins his plans for the Holocaust.
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He escapes from the concentration camps + tries to warn fellow Jews about what their fate will be, but they don't listen. (Night)
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Richeu's guardian poisons herself and all of the children living with her when the Nazi's come to send them to a concentration camp. (Maus)
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Vladek and Anja hide in Sosniec so they don't get sent to a concentration camp. (Maus)
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Nazi's begin to arrest Jews for no apparent reason which arouses suspicion for the fate of future Jews. (Night)
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Vladek is taken to Aushwitz after he is ratted out. (Maus)
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Elie's family and the rest of the jewish community are relocated to a small Ghetto. (Night)
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Vladek meets a catholic priest who gives him hope for the future. (Maus)
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Elie and his father arrive in Birkenau and get their prisoner number tattooed on their arms. (Night)
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The Allies invaded Europe on the Eastern front to get behind enemy lines.
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Vladek is able to bribe someone to transfer Anja from Birkenau to Aushwitz.
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Vladek and some of his friends from the concentration camp escape to Switzerland.
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Elie and his father are transferred from Birkenau to Auschwitz. (Night)
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Vladek unites with Anja in Sosniec. (Maus)
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Elie has surgery on his leg where he had frostbite. (Night)
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Elie's dad dies in a bunk in Buchenwald. (Night)
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The Americans liberatethe survivors at Buchenwald. (Night)
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Hitler kills himself which causes most of Europe to surrender + ends the Holocaust.
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The first Atomic Bomb was dropped on Japan in Hiroshima.
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The last Atomic Bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
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War ends.