Road to WWII II Timeline 2 BOIIIII

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  • The Gestapo is placed above the law.

  • German troops occupy the Rhineland

  • Italy takes over Ethiopia

  • Spanish civil war begins.

    Hitler sends air & armored unites to aid the Nationalists

  • Francisco Franco

    Francisco Franco declared head of the Spanish State

  • Stalin purges Army generals.

  • Hossbach Conference

    Adolf Hitler presents war plans to invade neighboring nations and acquire living space for Germans

  • Hitler announces the Anschluss

    March 12-13
    Austria is annexed by Germany

  • German military mobilizes

  • British P.M. Chamberlain appeases Germany

  • Germany annexes the Sudetenland

  • Kristallnacht

    Nov 9-10
    Jewish stores are destroyed.

  • Jews fined

    Jews fined 1 billion marks for Kristallnacht damages

  • Jewish students expelled from non-Jew schools

  • Herman Goering

    Herman Goering is put in charge of resolving the "Jewish question".

  • Reinhard Heydrich

    Reinhard Heydrich is ordered to speed up the emigration of jews.

  • Hitler threatens the elimination of Jews

    He thought Jews would put Germany into a crisi

  • Nazis force Jews to hand over Gold and Silver

  • Germany annexes Czechoslovakia

    March 15-16

  • The Spanish Civil war ends

    The Nationalists win

  • Jewish tenants lose rights and are relocated

  • The St. Louis is turned away by Cuba, the USA, & others.

    The St. Louis carried 930 Jewish refugees. They returned to Europe

  • Germany and Italy sign the 'Pact of Steel'

  • Adolf Eichmann, SS Lieutenant colenel

    Adolf Eichmann appointed director of the Prague office of Jewish Emigration.

  • Germany and the USSR sign a non-aggression pact.

  • Poland and the U.K.

    sign a mutual assistance treaty.

  • The British fleet mobilizes.

    Evacuations in London begin

  • Germany invades Poland

    WWII begins. Jews are forbidden from being outdoors after 8pm in winter and 9pm in Summer

  • Britain & more declare war on Germany

    Britain,France,Australia,& New Zealand declare war on Germany

  • Warsaw is cutoff by Germany

  • The USA declares neutrality.

  • Canada declares war on Germany

    Battle of the Atlantic begins

  • USSR invades Poland

    Germany and the USSR had a secret agreement for the USSR to attack Poland

  • Reinhard Heydrich

    Heydrich orders that Jews are to be contained in Ghettos near train tracks to prepare for the Final Solution

  • Wireless Radios

    German Jews forbidden from owning wireless radios

  • Warsaw surrenders

    Reinhard Heydrich is put in charge of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA)

  • Germany and USSR divide Poland

    German side has 2 million Jews, USSR side has 1.3 million Jews

  • Nazis begin Euthanasia of the sick & disabled

  • Hans Frank is made governor of Poland

  • Polish Jews 14-60 are forced to do labor

  • Hitler assassination fails

    A bomb placed during Hitlers Beer Hall Putsch anniversary speech explodes but no one is harmed, Hitler blames the British.

  • Yellow Stars

    Polish Jews over age 10 are required to wear yellow-stars