World War 2 By BOUD21 Period: Feb 28, 1933 to Jun 14, 1947 Events of the Holocost Mar 22, 1933 Established a concentration camp, Dachua Aug 2, 1934 German President Von Hindenburg died. Hitler becomes Fuhrer in addition to his position Aug 2, 1934 Hitler now become absolute dictator of Germany Jun 28, 1935 Criminalize all Homosexual acts between men, police have the means to prosecute all homosexuals Sep 15, 1935 Jews are made second class citizens Jul 12, 1936 Prison and civilian workers begin construction of the concentration camp Sachsenhausen at Oranienburg Jul 12, 1936 By September, German authorities had imprisioned about 1,000 people in the camp Mar 12, 1938 German troops invaded Austria Sep 30, 1938 Britain, France, Italy and Germany sign the Munich pact, forcing Czechoslovakia to cede its border areas to the German Reich Nov 9, 1938 Nazis and their collaboration burned synagues, looted Jewish homes and killed at least 91 jews Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnatch Sep 1, 1939 German troops invaded Poland, marking the beginning of World War 2 Sep 3, 1939 Britain and France fullfilled their promise to protect Poland's border and delcared war on Germany Apr 9, 1940 German troops invaded, defeated and occupied Denmark and Norway May 10, 1940 German troops invaded, Nertherlands, Belgium, luxembourg and France May 20, 1940 SS authorities established the Auschwitch concentration camp Jun 30, 1940 Germany ordered the first major Jewish Ghetto Nov 15, 1940 Germany confine 350,000 Jews Jun 22, 1941 Germany and axis forces invade soviet union Jul 20, 1941 Ghetto in Minsk Sep 6, 1941 Two Ghettos in Vilna Oct 15, 1941 Deportation of Jews from the German Riech to the ghetto Nov 24, 1941 Established Thereienstadit ghetto Nov 26, 1941 Established second camp at Auschwitz Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombed pearl harbour, Hawaii, United States delcared war on Japan Dec 11, 1941 Germany and Italy declared war on United States May 31, 1942 Openned Farben Labour camp at Auschwitz 3 Mar 19, 1944 German military units occupied Hungary Jun 6, 1944 D.Day British and American troops launched an invasion of France Jun 22, 1944 A massive Soviet offensive destroyed the German front in Belorussia Jul 23, 1944 Soviet troops liberated Majdanek. Germans failed to destroy camp and all evidence Aug 7, 1944 SS and police liquidated the Lodz ghetto Apr 30, 1945 Hitler commited suicide in his bunker in Berlin May 2, 1945 German units in Berlin surrendered to Soviet forces May 7, 1945 German forces surrendered in the West Sep 2, 1945 Japan surrendered. World War 2 officially ended
