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Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany by German President Paul von Hindenburg as part of a coalition administration.
He was the country's most powerful political leader, but he had no prior leadership experience, and they believed they could control him while securing the support they needed in the Reichstag through an alliance with the Nazis. -
The Nazi dictatorship orchestrated a wave of antisemitic violence in Nazi Germany during the night of November 9, 1938. The event was named the "Night of Broken Glass." The shattered glass from store windows that littered the streets following the rioting inspired the name. -
This is when World War 2 began, exactly when Poland was invaded by Germany. WW2 ended the great depression, distracting people by fighting in the war and working for the industries ended the great depression all together. -
The surprise aircraft attack by the Japanese on the US naval station at Pearl Harbour on Oahu Island, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, caused the The Us' entrance into World War II. The incident came at the end of a decade of weakening ties between the US and Japan. -
Three Japanese divisions arrived on Singapore Island on February 8, forcing the 90,000-strong British, Australian, and Indian garrison there, to surrender on February 15. Singapore was the main British station in the Pacific, and its powerful coastal defences made it almost indefensible. By moving along the Malay Peninsula and then assaulting the base's landward side, which the British had left weakly fortified, the Japanese captured it with relative ease. -
Darwin was attacked on February 19, 1942. Two times throughout the day, Japanese fighters and bombers attacked the port and vessels in the harbour, killing 252 Allied servicemen and civilians. Broome, Western Australia, was strafed on March 3rd. Many communities in northern Australia, including Wyndham, were targeted by air raids in the months that followed. -
At the finish of WWII, as the Allies moved through Europe, they stumbled upon concentration camps full of sick and malnourished captives.
Majdanek, in Lublin, Poland, was the first large camp to be freed on the 12th of July 1944. Surprised by the Soviet onslaught from the east, the Germans sought to conceal the evidence of mass murder by dismantling much of the camp, but certain areas remained intact, notably the gas chambers. -
Adolf Hitler commit suicide on April 30 1945, Soviet soldiers approached Hitler's command bunker in central Berlin. Within days, the Soviets capture Berlin. The killing place of Adolf Hitler threatened to become a pilgrimage destination for current Nazis and those committed to the Nazis' racist, and murderous political ideals after the war, despite the bunker being underground. -
World War II in Europe concluded on May 8, 1945. As word of Germany's capitulation spread throughout the world, jubilant people gathered in the streets to celebrate, carrying newspapers proclaiming "Victory in Europe." It ended on September 1st for the rest of the world, after the official documents were signed. -
he Nürnberg trials, commonly known as the Nuremberg trials, were a number of war crimes proceedings held at Nürnberg, Germany, in 1945–46. Former Nazi officials were accused and convicted as war criminals by the Nuremberg Tribunal. The London Agreement on August 8, 1945 gave the International Military Tribunal the power to conduct these cases.