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Hitler becomes German Chancellor
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First concentration camps
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Concentration camps held prisoners and forced them to work until they perish from exhaustion. -
The Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws took citizenship away from Jewish Germans. -
Kristallnacht
The anti-Jewish violence that erupted throughout Germany and Austria. More than 90 Jews were dead, hundreds were badly injured, and thousands more were terrorized -
The St. Louis Affair
On May 27, 1939, the SS St. Louis entered the harbor in Havana, Cuba, with 930 Jewish refugees on board. They were denied permission to come on shore so the ship tried the US. They were denied again. The shipped then docked in France, Holland, Belguim, and Great Britain. Within two years, France, Holland, and Belgium fell under Nazi domination. Many of the refugees brought to these countries perished in the Nazis’ “final solution.” -
The Nazi-Soviet Pact
A non-aggression pact, signed by Germany and the Soviet Union. -
World War II began
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Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
When Japan attack Pearl Harbor, the US finally got involved into World War II -
Germany and Italy declared war on the US
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Extermination camps
(ignore the December 12 in the date).
In late 1941, the Nazis built extermination facilities at the Chelmno and Auschwitz camps in Poland. These camps were used to quickly kill elders, the sic, young children, mothers, and the disabled in gas chambers. -
End of World War II
