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President Hindenburg appoints Hitler Chancellor of Germany
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SS opens the Dachau Concentration Camp outside of Munich
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Germany introduces military conscription
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The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined
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Germany invades Poland starting World War 2 in Europe
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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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The battle of Britain begins
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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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Einsatzgruppen shot about 34.000 Jews at Bibi Yar. outside Kiev
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The first killing operations begin at Chelmno in occupied Poland
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Nazi Germany & Italy declares war on the united states
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Germans begin the mass deportation of more that 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center
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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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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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Battle of Kursk
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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 invaded Normandy, France
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Anglo-American forces break out of Normandy
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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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Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland.
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Death march of nearly 50,000 prisoners from the Stutthof camp system in northern Poland.
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US troops cross the Rhine river at Remagen
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
