World War II by: Kyla Whitted

By whittedkm

  • Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor of Germany.

  • Period: to

    begining to end

  • Opening of a concentration camp for political prisoners near Dacha

  • Several thousand Americans attend a pro-Nazi rally in Queens. New York

  • The Gestapo prison Columbia-Haus in Berlin becomes a concentration camp.

  • Italy invades Ethiopia.

  • Spanish Civil War begins

  • The concentration camp Columbia-Haus is dissolved.

  • Himmler discloses that about 8,000 prisoners are in concentration camps for protective custody.

  • Germany signs military agreement with Japan.

  • Jews eliminated from the economy in Germany. Their assets can be seized.

  • The employment of Jews in businesses was banned.

  • Schacht was dismissed as President of the Reichsbank.

  • The Jewish refugee ship the St. Louis arrives in Belgium after being denied access to Cuba and the United States. Most of the passengers are eventually murdered by the Nazis

  • German troops invade Denmark and Norway.

  • Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France invaded and occupied

  • Operation Barbarossa - 3 million German troops invaded Russia

  • German advance in Russia halted by Russian winter and Russian counterattacks.

  • Extermination begins in Belzec; by end of 1942 600,000 Jews murdered

  • German troops defeated at the Second Battle of El Alamein in North Africa

  • First allied bombing raid on German cities

  • German forces mount a new offensive in Russia

  • Soviet troops experience success against the Germans in the Crimea

  • July Bomb Plot failed attempt to assassinate Hitler

  • Liberation of the camp by US Army troops

  • V-E Day: German surrender confirmed

  • German advance in Russia halted by Russian winter and Russian counterattacks.