World War II

  • Adolf Hitler rises to power

    He becomes Chancellor of Germany
  • Hitler commits suicide

  • Nuremberg Laws came to be

    Reichstag approves of these laws creating more prejudice against the Jewish
  • Kristallnacht starts

    In Germany, many Jewish places were destroyed. This event demonstrated mass violence and hatred towards Jews.
  • Hitler's Reichstag Speech

    This speech delivers a threat to Jews and begins the Nazi invasion of European countries starting with Czechoslovakia.
  • German bombing

    Germany begins to bomb Scotland, Paris, and England along with other attacks and invastions.
  • War on the United States

    Hitler declares war on America and takes control of the German Army
  • Mass Murder at Auschwitz

    The gassing of thousands of Jews occurs.
  • Germany surrenders

    In Aachen, Germany, many soldiers surrender and the last use of Auschwitz gas chambers takes place.
  • End of the war