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World War 2

By Anner08

  • WWI Ends With German Defeat

  • League of Nations founded

  • Signing of the Treaty of Versailles

  • Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party

  • Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" published

  • Germany admitted to League of Nations

  • Stock Market on Wall Street crashes (Start of the Great Depression)

  • Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany.

  • Franklin Roosevelt elected President of the United States.

  • Nazis open Dachau concentration camp

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • The German Reichstag burns

  • First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin

  • Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power

  • Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops.

  • Nazis burn books in Germany.

  • Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party.

  • Germany quits the League of Nations.

  • The Nazi "Night of the Long Knives"

  • Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss

  • German President Hindenburg dies

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany

  • Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription.

  • German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws

  • The German Gestapo is placed above the law

  • German troops occupy the Rhineland

  • Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia

  • Civil war erupts in Spain

  • Franco declared head of Spanish State

  • Soviet leader Josef Stalin begins a purge of Red Army generals

  • Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Conference

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    Germany announces 'Anschluss' (union) with Austria

  • German military mobilizes

  • British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich

  • German troops occupy the Sudetenland; Czech government resigns

  • Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany

  • Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.

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    Nazis take Czechoslovakia

  • Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy

  • Nazis and Soviets sign Pact

  • Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty

  • German Troops Invade Poland

  • Evacuation Of Children In London

  • Britain, France, Australia, & New Zealand Declare War On Germany

  • United States proclaims its neutrality; German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland

  • Canada declares war on Germany; Battle of the Atlantic begins

  • Soviets invade Poland

  • Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland

  • Assassination attempt on Hitler fails

  • Soviets attack Finland

  • Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations

  • Second Evacuation Of Children In London

  • Rationing Begins In Britain

  • Germans bomb Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland.

  • Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.

  • Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.

  • Holland surrenders to the Nazis.

  • Belgium surrenders to the Nazis.

  • Germans bomb Paris

  • France Surrenders To Germany

  • Axis Forces Invade Russia