World War II/Holocaust

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  • Japan invades China

  • Nazis order Jews to register wealth and property

  • Jews are prohibited from all legal practices

  • Nazi troops occupy the Sudetenland

  • Start of War/ Germany invades Poland

  • Forced labor decree issued for Polish Jews aged 14 to 60

  • Germany troops marched into Paris

  • Italy enters the war

  • France signs an armistice with Hitler

  • The first test use of Zyklon-B gas at Auschwitz

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

  • Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States

  • SS leader Heydrich dies from wounds caused by Czech Underground agents

  • Sterilization experiments on women at Birkenau begin

  • The first transport of Jews from Germany arrives at Auschwitz

  • First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto

  • Soviet troops liberate Kiev

  • Last use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz

  • Russian troops liberate Auschwitz, an estimated 2,000,000 have been murdered there

  • Mussolini is killed attempting to escape to Switzerland

  • Hitler and wife Eva Braun commit suicide

  • The war in Europe is officially over

  • Germany surrenders to the western Allies

  • The US drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima

  • Japan formally surrenders ending the World War 2