World War II and the Holocaust

By Dahlstrk

  • Adolf Hitler is born

  • Hitler takes entrance exam for Vienna Academy of Fine Arts (rejected)

  • Hitler applies again to Academy (refused admittance to test)

  • Hitler moves to Germany at the age of 24

  • Hitler joins WWI as a German soldier (He was born in Austria)

  • Hitler suffered temporary blindness from a British gas attack

  • WWI ends

  • German delegates sign the Treaty of Versailles

  • Hitler designs Nazi flag and symbol

  • Hitler takes dictatorial control over the Nazi Party

  • Hitler tries to take over government arrested sentenced to 5 years in jail (served 3 months)

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor (Head of the German government)

  • Germany takes away many civil rights (ex: freedom of speech)

  • Dachau established (originally a concentration camp for opponents of the Nazis)

  • Germany government organized boycot on Jewish stores

  • Hitler outlaws all political parties other than the Nazi Party

  • Jews removed from various fields of entertainment (ex: music, art, and literature)

  • Hitler assumes powers of both President and Chancellor of Germany

  • Introduction of ID cards for Jewish people (effective January 1, 1939)

  • Jewish passports are marked with the letter "J" for "Jude"

  • Jewish children expelled from German schools

  • Jewish people banned from working with Germans

  • Ravensbruck camp established (only major women's concentration camp)

  • Hitler invades Poland fell within 3 weeks (Beginning of WWII)

  • France and Britain declare war on Germany for invading Poland

  • Lodz ghetto established

  • Germany attacks Denmark and Norway

  • Creation of Auschwitz

  • Hitler attacks Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg

  • Germany attacks France

  • First gassing tests at Auschwitz (1.1 million people were killed here)

  • Germany invades Hungary

  • D-Day Allies landed on Normandy beach in France (approximately 10,000 casualties)

  • Soviet troops liberate Lodfz ghetto (877 people left out of 250,000 Jewish people)

  • British troops liberate Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (Anne Frank died here)

  • American troops liberate Dachau

  • Hitler commits suicide in Berlin at the age of 56

  • Germans surrender