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Treaty of Versailies is Signed.
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Hitler is appointed Chanellor of Germany.
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SS opens Dachau.
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Boycott of Jewish-owned stores and businesses.
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Law for the Re-establishment of the Professional Civil Service.
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Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases.
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Germany introduces military conscription.
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Nuremburg Race Laws.
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German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland.
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Summer Olympics begin in Germany.
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Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss (Union).
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The St. Louis sails from Hamburg, Germany.
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Munich Agreement.
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Kristallnacht (nationwide pogrom in Germany).
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The St. Louis sails from Hamburg, Germany.
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Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement.
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Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe
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The Soviet Union occupies Poland from the east.
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Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
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Germany attacks western Europe (France and the Low Countries).
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Battle of Britain begins.
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Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center.
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Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece.
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Germany invades the Soviet Union.
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Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno.
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Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen of Muenster denounces the “euthanasia” killing program in a public sermon.
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Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev.
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Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki (Tuchinka).
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Einsatzgruppen shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula Forest.
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Soviet winter counteroffensive.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declares war the next day
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The first killing operations begin at Chelmno in occupied Poland.
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Nazi Germany declares war on the United States.
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Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center.
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Wannsee Conference held near Berlin, Germany.
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Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east (primarily to Auschwitz).
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Soviet troops counterattack at Stalingrad, trapping the German Sixth Army in the city.
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Germany launches a new offensive towards the city of Stalingrad.
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Germans begin mass deportations of nearly 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to the east (primarily to Auschwitz).
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Germans begin the mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center.
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Germans complete the mass deportation of about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka.
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Soviet troops counterattack at Stalingrad, trapping the German Sixth Army in the city.
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
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Battle of Kursk.
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Rescue of Jews in Denmark.
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Soviet troops liberate Kiev.
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Germans forces occupy Hungary.
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Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary.
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D-Day: Allied forces invade Normandy, France.
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The Soviets launch an offensive in eastern Belorussia (Belarus).
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Anglo-American forces break out of Normandy.
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Warsaw Polish uprising begins.
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Allied forces land in southern France.
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Liberation of Paris.
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Battle of the Bulge.
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Soviet winter offensive.
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Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland.
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Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex.
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U.S. troops cross the Rhine River at Remagen.
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The Soviets launch their final offensive, encircling Berlin.
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American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies.
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Germany surrenders to the Soviets.
