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Hitler took leadership of the Nazi party then renamed the National Socialist German Workers Party.
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The Wall Street Crash of 1929, or known as Black Tuesday was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States.
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Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany
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Was a Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany used primarily for political prisoners
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The Olympics were held in Berlin, Germany in the summer of 1936. It was officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad
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Nazis ordered Jews to wear a yellow star to mark them Jewish or Christian in public areas. It was worn as a badge of shame.
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Also referred to the "Night of Broken Glass" it was a progrom against Jews.
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The Nazis started the euthanasia program on the sick and disabled to get rid of the people that could not do anything or were suffering. It was known as a "mercy death."
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After Germany invades Poland. Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany.
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The Netherlands had claimed neutrality when the war broke out, but Hitler ordered it to be invaded anyways.
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The campaign was fought between the Axis and Allied powers.
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Gas chambers were first used at Auschwitz to exterminate the prisoners there.
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Japan sent a surprise military strike on the navy ships in Pearl Harbor. It led the United States into World War II.
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Allied forces invaded Normandy Beach.
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Soviet troops liberated more than 7,000 prisoners.
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The Americans dropped 23,000 tons of bombs on Berlin.
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The US dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The state of Israel was created.
