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Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
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first concentration camp
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Nazis issue a decree defining a non-Aryan as "anyone descended from non-Aryan, especially Jewish, parents or grandparents. One parent or grandparent classifies the descendant as non-Aryan...especially if one parent or grandparent was of the Jewish faith."
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Boycotts against Jews begin
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Hitler gave speech concerning the violation of the Treaty of Versailles
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jews were banned from german labor front
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The Night of Long Knives occurs as Hitler, Göring and Himmler conduct a purge of the SA (storm trooper) leadership
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Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor). Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him.
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Anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws passed by Reichstag; Jews lose citizenship and civil rights
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Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreed.
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Fascist army officers tried to overthrow the government
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The start of the Spanish Civil War between Fascists and Loyalists
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Olympic games begin in Berlin. Hitler and top Nazis seek to gain legitimacy through favorable public opinion from foreign visitors and thus temporarily refrain from actions against Jews.
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Nazis set up an Office for Combating Homosexuality and Abortions (by healthy women).
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Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists. They are also denied tax reductions and child allowances.
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A war broke out between China and Japan
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Japanese troops brutally assaulted and occupied the Chinese city of Nanjing
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Buchenwald concentration camp opens
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became convinced the U.S hould assist in the quarantine of warring nations
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the night of broken glass
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At the Munich Conference, Germany was given control of the Sudetenland. Extension of anti-Semitic laws to Austria after annexation
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26,000 Jews sent to concentration camps; Jewish children expelled from schools
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signed nonagression pact with Hitler
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Germany invaded Poland without warning
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German bombers and armored divisions moved into Poland
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Allied Powers declared war on Germany
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Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads) follow German army into conquered lands, rounding up and massacring Jews and other “undesirables.”
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Germans attacked around the Maginot Line
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Winston Churchill became prime minister
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Italy declared war on France and Britain
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German submarines turned the North Atlantic into a grave yeard of ships which started The Battle of the Atlantic. The genocyde stages of the Holocaust began and concentration camps came into power
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Japanese troops occupied French Indochina and the pearl harbor attack commenced
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Goering instructs Heydrich to carry out the “final solution to the Jewish question
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Deportation of German Jews begins; massacres of Jews in Odessa and Kiev (and in Riga and Vilna
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Mass killings using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Nazi leaders attend Wannsee Conference to coordinate the “final solution”
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F.D.R created the War Production Board to increase military prodution
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Nazis liquidate Lidice in retaliation for Heydrich's death.
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100,000 Jews from Warsaw Ghetto deported to Treblinka death camp
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Warsaw Ghetto uprisings
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Executive order requiring nondiscrimination clauses in all war contracts
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The office of mobilization coordinated all government agencies involved in war effort
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Ghetto exterminated
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The Danish Underground helps transport 7,220 Danish Jews to safety in Sweden by sea.
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Diary entry by Hans Frank, Gauleiter of Poland, concerning the fate of 2.5 million Jews originally under his jurisdiction - "At the present time we still have in the General Government perhaps 100,000 Jews."
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476,000 Hungarian Jews sent to Auschwitz
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Soviet Army liberates Maidanek death camp. Nazis try to hide evidence of death camps
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This UN charter points down the only road to enduring peace. There is no other
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The U.S. occupied and defeated Japan
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As Allies advance, Nazis force concentration camp inmates on death marches. Americans liberate Buchenwald and British liberate Bergen-Belsen camps
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delegates from 50 nations net in San Francisco to draw up the Charter of the United Nations
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marked the first time President Truman had met with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin since President Roosevelt's death
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The UN officially came into existence
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Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
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After World War II, thousands of European Jews made their way to Palestine
