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Hitler named Chancellor of Germany
He was only cheered by Nazis and their supporters who believed in him, not the constitution or the republic. -
Daucha opened
It was origially used for political prisons. -
Hitler named Furher
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U.S. signs Neutrality Acts
This was signed at the time when newly installed fascist governments in Europe were beginning to beat the drums of war. -
Germany passes the Nermburg Act
These were introduced by Reichstag at a Nermburg Rally of the Nazi Party. -
Germany invades the Rhineland
This violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties, marking the first time since the end of World War 1. -
Nazi/Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
German chancellor Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) used the pact to make sure Germany was able to invade Poland unopposed. The pact also contained a secret agreement in which the Soviets and Germans agreed how they would later divide up Eastern Europe. -
Germany invades Poland
The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war–what would become the “blitzkrieg” strategy. -
Hitler and Mussolini join forces
In private, however, Mussolini was scornful of Hitler and his party. The Italian leader described Mein Kampf as “boring” and thought Hitler’s ideas and theories were “coarse” and “simplistic”. Mussolini, who was prone to egomania, also had a low opinion of Hitler’s elevation to power, which he thought less glorious than his own. -
Pogrom in Germany begins
Outbreaks of this kind occasionally occur spontaneously but are initiated by local or national forces. -
Germany invades France
Even though France has at times been eurosceptical in outlook, especially under President Charles de Gaulle, Franco-German agreements and cooperations have always been key to furthering the ideals of European integration. -
Lend-Lease Act passed
the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Germany attacks Soviet Union
The destruction of the Soviet Union by military force, the permanent elimination of the perceived Communist threat to Germany, and the seizure of prime land within Soviet borders for long-term German settlement had been a core policy of the Nazi movement since the 1920s. -
Germans surrender Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad began in the summer of 1942, as German forces assaulted the city, a major industrial center and a potential strategic coup. -
D-Day
D-Day for the invasion of Normandy was set for June 5, 1944, but it actually occurred on June 6. Therefore, D-Day, as it applies to Overlord, is June 6, 1944. -
Liberation of Paris
was a military action that took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the German garrison surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944. -
Battle of the Bulge
was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
Yalta Conference
was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down. -
Roosevelt dies
he suffered a massive stroke and died -
Dachau liberated
the first concentration camp established by Germany's Nazi regime. -
Hitler commits suicide
Der Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, consumes a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol, on this day in 1945, as his “1,000-year” Reich collapses above him. -
Last allied troops leave Germany
Upon the defeat of the Third Reich in World War II, the victorious Allied powers asserted their authority over all territory of the German Reich which lay west of the Oder–Neisse line, having formally abolished the government of Adolf Hitler.