World war 2 Timeline by Tanya Granado

Beginning

Jan 30, 1933

Adolf Hitler appointed chacellor of Germany by President Von Hidenburg.

2

Mar 22, 1933

The first Nazi camp opened.

3rd

May 10, 1933

public burnings of books written by Jews, political dissidents, and others not apporoved by the state.

4th

Aug 2, 1934

Hitler proclaims himself leader and chancellor.

5th

May 31, 1935

Jews barrad from serving in the German armed forces.

6th

Nov 15, 1935

Germany defines a "Jew" anyone with three Jewish grandparens; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew.

7th

Mar 3, 1936

Jewish doctors barred from practicing medicane in German institutions.

8th

Jul 12, 1936

Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens.

9th

Jul 15, 1937

Buchenwald concentration camp opens.

10th

May 1, 1938

Flossenburg concentration camp opens.

11th

Aug 8, 1938

Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria.

12th

Oct 28, 1938

17,000 polish Jews living in Germany expelled; poles refused to admit tthem; 8,000 are stranded in the frontier village of Zbaszyn.

13th

Nov 9, 1938

night of broken glass, anti- Jewish program in Germany, Austria, and the sudentenland.

14th

Nov 15, 1938

All Jewish pupils expelled from German schools.

15th

May 18, 1939

Ravensbruck concentration camp opens.

16th

Sep 1, 1939

Beginning of world war 2. Germany invade poland.

17th

Oct 28, 1939

First polish ghetto established in piotrkow.

18th

Nov 23, 1939

Jews in German occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star.

19th

May 10, 1940

Germany invades the Netharlands, Belguim, Luxembourg, and France.

20th

May 20, 1940

Concenration camp established a Auschiwitz.

21st

Jun 4, 1940

Newengamme concentration camp opens.

22nd

Jun 22, 1940

France surrenders

23rd

Sep 20, 1940

Breendonck concentration camp opens

24th

Jan 21, 1941

Anti-Jewish riots in Romania, hundrads of Jews butchered.

25th

Feb 1, 1941

German authorities begin rounding up polish Jews for transfer to Watsaw Ghetto. 10,000 Jews died by stravation in the Ghetto between January and June 1941.

26th

Jun 22, 1941

Germany invades the soviet union.

27th

Dec 7, 1941

Japanese attacks pearl harbor.

28th

Dec 11, 1941

United states declares war on Japan, and Germany.

29th

Mar 17, 1942

Extermination begins in Belzec, by the end of 1942, 600,000 Jews murderded.

30

May 1, 1942

Extermination by gas begins in soilobor killing center. 250,000 jews murdered.

31st

Oct 14, 1943

Armed revolt in sobibor extermination camp.

32nd

Oct 31, 1943

Rescue of the panish jewry.

33rd

Jul 24, 1944

Russians liberate majdanck killing center.

34th

Apr 8, 1945

Many jews are liberated.

35th

Apr 30, 1945

Hitler commits suicide.

36th

Sep 2, 1945

Japan surrenders: end of world war 2.