World War 2 Timeline

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  • World War 1 ends with german defeat

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    1918-1939

  • The League of Nations is founded

  • The signing of the treaty of versailles

  • Hitler becomes leader of Nazi party

  • Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch

  • Hitler's book Mein Kampf *My Struggle* was published

  • Germany admits to the league of nations

  • Wall Street stock market crashes

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

  • Franklin Roosevelt elected president of the United States

  • Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

  • The German Reichstag burns

  • First concentration camp opens at Oranienburg outside of Berlin

  • Enabling act give Hitler dictatorial power

  • Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops

  • Nazis burn books in Germany

  • Nazis open Dachau concentration camp

  • 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

  • Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany

  • Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing miltary conscription

  • German Jews stripped of rights Nuremburg Race Laws

  • The German Gestapo is placed above the law

  • German troops occupy the Rhineland

  • Mussolini's Italian forces take over Ethiopia

  • Civil War erupts in Spain

  • Olympic Games begin in Berlin

  • Franco declared head of Spanish state

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

  • Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Conference

  • Germany announces union with Austria

  • German militrary mobilizes

  • British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich

  • German troops ocupy the Sudetenland

  • Kristallnacht- Night of the Broken Glass

  • Hitler threatens Jews during the Reichstag speech

  • Nazis take Czechoslovakia

  • Spanish Civil War ends

  • Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy

  • Nazis and Soviets sign pact

  • Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty

  • British fleet mobilizes: Civilian evacuations begin

  • Nazis invade Poland

  • Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany

  • British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy

  • United States proclaims it's neutralality; Germans cross the Vistula River in Poland

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

  • Soviets invade Poland

  • Warsaw surrenders to Nazis

  • Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland

  • Nazis begin euthanasia on the sick and disabled

  • Assasination attempt on Hitler fails

  • Soviets attack Finland

  • Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations

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    Blitzkreig

  • Battle of Britain begins

    The main part of the battle was the air raids in London. There were 32,000 killed and 87,000 injured.

  • Battle of Britain ends