WWII and Night

By nalchen375

  • World War I ends

    Germans defeated

  • Treaty of Versailles signed

    -Peace treaty at end of WWI
    -Ended state of war between Germany and Allied Powers

  • Adolf Hitler joins German Workers' Party

    -Before National Socialist Party

  • League of Nations founded

    -Intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War
    -First international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace

  • Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party

    -AKA National Socialist German Workers' Party
    -After German Workers' Party

  • Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch

    -Hitler and Nazis hatched plot to kidnap leaders of Bavarian government and force them at gunpoint to accept Hitler as their leader
    -Then, with aid of General Erich Ludendorff, they would win over the German army, proclaim a nationwide revolt and bring down the German democratic government in Berlin

  • Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" published

    -"My Struggle"
    -autobiographical manifesto
    -outlines political ideology and future plans for Germany

  • Germany admitted to League of Nations

  • Elie Wiesel is born

  • Wall Street Stock Market crash

  • Germans elect Nazis

    -Makes Nazis the second largest political party in Germany

  • Franklin Roosevelt elected president of United States

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • German Reichstag burns

    -in Berlin, Germany
    -originally constructed to house Imperial Diet of German Empire

  • First concentration camp opened

    -Oranienburg outside Berlin

  • Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power

  • Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops

  • Nazis burn books in Germany

    -campaign conducted by German Student Union
    -ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria
    -classical liberal, anarchist, socialist, pacifist, Communist, Jewish, etc authors whose writings were viewed as subversive or whose ideologies undermined National Socialist administration

  • Nazis open Dachau concentration camp

    -intended to hold political prisoners
    -first of Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany

  • Nazi party declared Germany's only political party

  • Nazi's withdraw from League of Nations

    -Japan, Italy, Spain, etc also withdrew

  • Nazi "Night of the Long Knives"

    -AKA "Operation Hummingbird"
    -series of political murders
    -most who were killed were against Hitler

  • Nazis murder Austrain Chancellor Dollfuss

  • German President Hindenburg dies

  • Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany

  • Hitler voilates Treaty of Versailles

    -introduces military conscription

  • Nuremburg Race Laws

    -German Jews stripped of rights

  • German Gestapo placed above law

    -Gestapo: official secret police of Nazi Germany
    -under administration of Heinrich Himmler

  • German troops occupy Rhineland

    -violation of Treaty of Versailles

  • Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia

    -Mussolini influenced Hitler and was later influenced by him

  • Civil War in Spain

  • Ollympic games begin in Berlin

  • Franco declared head of Spanish State

  • Stalin begins purge of Red Army generals

  • Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Conference

  • Germany announces 'Anschluss' (union) with Austria

  • German military mobilizes

  • British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich

    -assented to annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland region into Greater Germany

  • Czech government resigns

    -also German troops occupy the Sudetenland

  • Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass")

    -pogrom against Jews w/ no authority intervention
    -Jewish homes. hospitals, schools, synagogues destroyed

  • Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech

  • Nazis take Czechoslovakia

  • Spanish Civil war ends

  • Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy

  • Nazis and Soviets sign Pact

  • Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty

  • British fleet mobilizes

    -also civilian evacuations begin from London

  • Nazis invade Poland

  • Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany

  • British Royal Air Force attacks German Navy

  • United States proclaims neutrality

  • Canada declares war on Germany

    -also Battle of the Atlantic begins

  • Soviets invade Poland

  • Warsaw surrenders to Nazis

    -also Reinhard Heydrich becomes the leader of new Reich Main Security Office

  • Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland

  • Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany

  • Assassination attempt on Hitler fails

  • Soviets attack Finland

  • Soviet Union expelled from League of Nations

  • Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviets

  • Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands

    -also Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister

  • Holland surrenders to the Nazis

  • Belgium surrenders to the Nazis

  • Norway surrenders to the Nazis

    -also Italy declares war on Britain and France

  • Nazis invade Denmark and Norway

  • President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act

  • Elie meets Moishe the Beadle

    Becomes his master in his studies of Kabbalah

  • Nazis order Jews to wear stars and triangles

    All stars yellow.
    Triangles color-coded.

  • First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz

  • Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor

    -also Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree

  • United States and Britain declare war on Japan

  • Hitler declares war on the United States

  • Japanese-Americans sent to relocation centers

  • Moishe returns from Galicia

    No longer wants to live

  • Jews were treated as slaves

    Treated like they were less than dirt

  • German vehicle on streets

    German soldiers were distant but polite.

  • Wiesel family arrives at Birkenall, Poland

  • Elie and his father were sent to Auschwitz

  • Elie and his father evacuate Auchwitz

    Could have been liberated if they had stayed

  • Last time Elie saw his father

  • Elie realizes father has died

    Admits that he was secretly glad

  • Announcement that Buchenwald camp would be liquidated

  • 6:00pm first American tank stands at gates of Buchenwald

  • Elie's last day in Buchenwald

  • First U.S. atomic bomb test

  • First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan

  • Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan

  • WWII ends

  • Nuremberg war crimes trials begin

  • Elie Wiesel studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. He becomes interested in journalism.

  • Elie Wiesel goes to Jerusalem for the first time

  • After studying at the Sorbonne, Elie Wiesel begins travelling around the world as a reporter for the Tel Aviv newspaper Yediot Ahronot

  • Elie convinced to write Night

    During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, Elie is persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps.

  • Elie Wiesel finishes a nearly 900-page manuscript in Yiddish while on assignment in Brazil

  • Elie Wiesel is hit by a taxicab

    Shortly after moving to New York City to be a permanent correspondent

  • Elie naturalizes to United States

    Recovered from his injuries but still a stateless person with expired visas

  • Night published

    La Nuit (appearing in 1960 in English translation as Night) is published, and has since been translated into more than 30 languages

  • Elie Wiesel becomes an American citizen

  • Wiesel returns to childhood home

    Elie Wiesel returns to Sighet and visits his childhood home. He receives the Ingram Merill award and publishes The Town Beyond the Wall.

  • Elie Wiesel wins the Prix Medicis

  • Elie Wiesel marries Marion

  • Wiesel's son is born

    His son, Elisha Shlomo, is born. Elie Wiesel also serves as Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies at the City University of New York (1972–1976)

  • Wiesel recieves awards

    Elie Wiesel receives the Jewish Heritage Award, Haifa University, and the Holocaust Memorial Award, New York Society of Clinical Psychologists

  • Wiesel teaches

    Since 1976, he has been the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he also holds the title of University Professor.
    He is a member of the Faculty in the Department of Religion as well as the Department of Philosophy

  • President Jimmy Carter appoints Elie Wiesel as Chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust

  • Elie Wiesel receives medal

    He recieves the Prix Liber Inter, France, the S.Y. Agnon Medal, and the Jabotinsky Medal, State of Israel

  • Wins Nobel Peace Prize

    Soon after, he and his wife, Marion, establish The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, an organization to fight indifference, intolerance and injustice

  • Holocaust memorial museum

    Elie Wiesel gives address at the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Museum opens to the public.

  • Tribute to Holocaust Survivors

    In November Wiesel addresses the Tribute to Holocaust Survivors, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

  • Speech and Commander's Cross

    In July Elie Wiesel delivers remarks “On the Atrocities in Sudan” at the Darfur Emergency Summit, convened at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York on July 14, 2004, by the American Jewish World Service and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In September US Secretary of State Colin Powell testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that "genocide has been committed in Darfur."
    Elie Wiesel receives the Commander's Cross from the Republic of Hungary.

  • Award & novel

    Elie Wiesel receives the Man of the Year award from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Light of Truth award from the International Campaign for Tibet, and publishes The Time of the Uprooted, a novel

  • Elie Wiesel travels to Auschwitz with Oprah Winfrey