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President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Gemrany
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The Nuremberg Race Laws
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Kristallnacht
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Germany invades Poland
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The German-Soviet Pact
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway
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Britian vs Germany
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Einsatzgruppen shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century forifications surrounding Kovno
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Japan bombs Pearl Habor bringing the United States to declare war on Japan. Soon causing the alliance of Japan (Italy and Germany aka the Axis Powers) to declare wore (mostly Germany) on the United States on December 11, 1941.
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The Wannsee Conference held near Berlin, Germany.
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Elie Wiesel is fifteen years old when he and his family are deported in May 1944 by the Hungarian gendarmerie and the German SS and police from Sighet to Auschwitz.
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On June 6, 1944, under the code name Operation "Overlord," US, British, and Canadian troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, on the English Channel coast east of Cherbourg and west of Le Havre.
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Prisoners forced to walk. Many die of hunger and thirst. Heinrich Himmler ordered that prisoners in all concentration camps and subcamps be evacuated toward the interior of the Reich.
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Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler orders a halt to the "Final Solution" in November 1944 and orders the destruction of the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Battle of the Bulge. As the Allies attempted to penetrate across the western border of Germany in late 1944, the Germans tried one last gambit to reverse their fortunes. Operation “Watch on the Rhine” was intended to split British and US forces in northern France.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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On September 2, the Pacific War ends with the surrender of Japan after the US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August. World War II is over.
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The Paris Peace Treaties of 10 February 1947 is signed
