World War II

By thejones'

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    Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation full of 566,000.

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    40,000 SA and SS men are sworn in as auxiliary police

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    The Nazi's burn Reichstag Building

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    Today emergency powers were granted to Hitler

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    German Parliament passes Enable Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers.

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    Jews are banned from German Labor Front

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    Jews are not allowed health insurance

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    All jews are prohibited from getting legal qualifications.

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    Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.

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    Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases.

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    SS deathshead division is established to guard concentration camps

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    Nazi's set up an office for combating homosexuality and abortions

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    The German Gestapo is placed above the law.

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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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    Nazi troops enter Austria, which has a population of 200,000 jews.

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    Nazis prohibit Aryan 'front-ownership' of Jewish businesses.

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    Nazis order Jews to register wealth and property.

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    At Evian, France, the U.S. convenes a League of Nations conference with delegates from 32 countries to consider helping Jews fleeing Hitler, but results in inaction as no country will accept them.

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    Nazis order Jews over age 15 to apply for identity cards from the police, to be shown on demand to any police officer.

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    Jews lose rights as tenants and are relocated into Jewish houses.

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    German Jews denied the right to hold government jobs.

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    Jews in Germany are forbidden to be outdoors after 8 p.m. in winter and 9 p.m. in summer.

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    Soviet troops invade eastern Poland.

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    The Nazi's chose a site in poland for the concentration camps

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    The first deportation to the poland concentration camp

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    The Nazi's Invaded Denamark with a jewish popualtion of 8,000. Then also invaded Norway with a jewish population of 2,000.

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    Nazi's invade France with a population of 350,000. Also invaded Belgium with a jewish population of 65,000. They invade Holland with a jewish population of 140,000. Also Luxembourg was invaded , their jewish population is 3,500.

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    Nazis invade Russia (Jewish pop. 3 million).

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    Hitler declares war on the United States. President Roosevelt then asks Congress for a declaration of war on Germany saying, "Never before has there been a greater challenge to life, liberty and civilization." The U.S.A. then enters the war in Europe and will concentrate nearly 90 percent of its military resources to defeat Hitler.

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    Beginning of German Army attack on Stalingrad in Russia.