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Rise of Dictators
Many prominant leaders gained power through communism and leading whole countries solely alone. -
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Children of the Holocaust
The Germans killed over 1.5 million children. This includes jewish children, gypsys, children with mental and physical disabilities, and many others. Some were forced into labor. -
First Nazi Concentration Camp opens
Dachau was the first concentration camp that opened, the camp held over 5,000 people. The backround behind "concentration" cam efrom the thought of using documents of trapping a group of people who are in some way undesirable. -
Auschwitz Opening
Auschwitz, one of the most prominent extermination camp during the holocaust was opened. Now it is a museum and a constant reminder of the unspeakable acts that occured. -
Final Solution
Systematic genocide of European Jewish people during World War II. This system was created by Heinrich Himmler. -
First Death Camp
The first death camp was opened in Chelmno. At least 152,00 were killed. -
Wannsee Conference
Meeting of officials of the Nazi Germany group, held in Wannsee, Berlin. They presented a plan that was for all Jewish people in surrounding area to be deported and used for later labor in the Eastern Europe. -
Exterminaton Camps Planned and Built
Camps were built and the primary function was genocide of minorties that opposed the strict regime. They killed millions throgh different tortures, some of them were, gas chambers, medical expiramentation, inhumane conditions, unsafe work, and live cremations of minorities. -
Mengele's Children
Mengele was a experienced medical researcher who worked in Aushwitz. He researched and performed medical experiements on twins. He also performed some odd medical experiments on other people in the concentration camps. Only 100 twins survivied. -
War Refugee Board
President Franklin D. Rosevelt created a angency to aid victims of the Nazi pwoers. The created refugee camps and evacuated individuals. -
Allied soilders liberated the concentration camps
Allied troups moved across Europe and discovered many camps and were appauled by the cruel conditions. The then began liberating the camps and letting the survivors go free -
Yalta Conference
This conference was a meeting of many contries heads of governments to discuss the restablishment of nations in war-torn europe. -
Hitler's Death
Hitler commited sucide through gunshot. His wife commited sucidie with him with cyanide. The bodies were then burned and burried. -
Trial in Nuremberg
The U.S. Military Tribunal in Nuremberg has 23 former SS docters and scientists go on trial . 16 are found guility and 7 are hanged. -
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The United Nations General Assembly decided that after WWII, we needed a document to tell us what rights humans are inherently entitiled. It contained 30 articles and became international law that it be obeyed.
