P3Williams/Ridge By lwilliams16 Jun 28, 1919 Signng of the Treaty of Versailles Jul 29, 1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi party Jan 30, 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany Mar 23, 1933 Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power Aug 2, 1934 German President Hindenburg dies Aug 19, 1934 Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany Mar 16, 1935 Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles Sep 15, 1935 German Jews are stripped of rights by Nuremberg race laws Aug 12, 1938 German military mobilizes Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht Sep 1, 1939 Nazi Germany invades Poland Nazi Germany invades poland Sep 3, 1939 Britian, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany Sep 29, 1939 Nazis and the Soviets divide up Poland Apr 9, 1940 Nazis invade Denmark and Norway May 10, 1940 Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands Jun 3, 1940 Germans bomb Paris Jun 10, 1940 Norway surrenders to the Nazis; Italy declares war on Britain and France Jun 22, 1940 France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany. Jul 10, 1940 Battle of Britain begins Sep 1, 1941 Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars. Dec 7, 1941 Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor Dec 8, 1941 United States and Britain declare war on Japan Dec 11, 1941 Hitler declares war on the United States. Jul 9, 1942 Germans begin a drive toward Stalingrad in the USSR Sep 13, 1942 Battle of Stalingrad begins Nov 1, 1942 Operation Supercharge (Allies break Axis lines at El Alamein). Nov 19, 1942 Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad begins Dec 13, 1942 Rommel withdraws from El Agheila Jan 10, 1943 Soviets begin an offensive against the Germans in Stalingrad Feb 2, 1943 Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies Mar 2, 1943 Germans begin a withdrawal from Tunisia, Africa May 7, 1943 Allies take Tunisia May 13, 1943 German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa. Jul 9, 1943 Allies land in Sicily Sep 8, 1943 Italian surrender to Allies is announced Jun 6, 1944 D-Day landings on the northern coast of France. Aug 25, 1944 Liberation of Paris. Jan 17, 1945 Soviet troops capture Warsaw, Poland Jan 26, 1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz Apr 30, 1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide May 7, 1945 Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies. Aug 6, 1945 First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan. Aug 9, 1945 Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan. Aug 14, 1945 Japanese agree to unconditional surrender.
