Week 2 Assignment #3 (B)

By samarandersonn

  • Hitler's birth

    Born in Austria
  • Period: to

    Why did German people not speak up and protest?

    I think Germans did not speak up because they knew if they did, their consequences would be execution. Also, speaking up put their family at risk, and Germans probably did not think much about what they were doing.

  • Started German worker's party (Nazi party)

  • Conspired with other white politicians to overthrow republic

    Hitler was sentenced to prison where he wrote about his radical beliefs

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

  • Placards appeared outside of public places

    Written on them were "Jews not wanted" or Jews forbidden"

  • Hitler ordered sacking of government jobs from anyone not of Aryan descent

    Immediately, many Jewish civil servants were sacked

  • Councils banned Jews from public places

  • Jews forbidden to join army

  • Nuremburg Laws passed

    Denied Jews right of German citizenship

  • Professional activities of Jews banned

  • Aryanisation of Jewish businesses stepped up

  • Jews had to register property

    Registering their property made it easier to confiscate

  • Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass

    Most violent actions taken against Jews in 7-year time span

  • Jewish community forced to pay fine of one billion Reichsmarks

  • Jewish children excluded from German schools

  • Britain declared war on Germany, France soon did as well

  • Jews no longer allowed to run businesses

  • Hitler invaded Soviet Union

    This started largest land war in history

  • Hitler declared war on United States

  • Allied invasion of Normandy

    This was the turning point of the war

  • Hitler committed suicide