The holocaust

president Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

SS opens concentration camp outside of Munich

Mar 20, 1933

German troops entered Rhineland

Mar 7, 1936

area in western Germany that the Versailles Treaty explicitly banned them from occupying. no action

Hitler and Mussolini signed an agreement

Mar 7, 1936

Began alliance between two nations. Germany, Italy, and later
Japan, became known as the Axis Powers.

Germany took over Austria.

Mar 1, 1938

Hitler demanded the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia.
Following the policy of appeasement British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain agreed to allow Hitler to occupy the Sudetenland.

Kristallnacht

Period: Nov 9, 1938 to Nov 10, 1938

Nazi thugs throughout Germany and Austria looted and destroyed Jewish stores, houses, and synagogues.

Wannsee Conference held near Berlin, Germany.

Jan 20, 1942

Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews

Mar 27, 1942

from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east

Germans begin the mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews

Jul 22, 1942

from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center.

Battle of the Bulge.

Dec 16, 1942

Warsaw ghetto uprising begins.

Apr 19, 1943

The Soviets launch their final offensive in Berlin.

Apr 16, 1945

Adolf Hitler commits suicide.

Apr 30, 1945

Germany surrenders to the western Allies and Germany surrenders to the Soviets

Period: May 7, 1945 to May 9, 1945