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Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Von Hindenburg.
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The first official Nazi concentration camp opens in Dachau.
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Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses.
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Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
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In Germany, legislation is passed making the Nazi party the only legal political party.
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Hitler proclaims himself leader and reich chancellor.
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In Germany, the first Numemberg Laws are passed revoking citizenship from Jews and prohibiting them from marrying non-Jews.
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Germany defines a "Jew" as anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew.
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Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens.
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Spanish Civil War begins.
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Buchenwald concentration camp opens.
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Japan invades China.
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Romanian Jew are stripped of their citizenship.
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17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany expelled.
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Ravensbruck concentration camp opens.
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Germany invades Poland from the west beginning of World War II.
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Britain declares war on Germany at 11am. France declares war on Germany six hours later.
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In Poland, the process of moving the Jewish population into ghettos begins.
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Albert Einstein and others inform FDR of the possibility of creating an atomic bomb.
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Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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Britain and the United States declare war on Japan. Japan invades Malaya.
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Liquidation of Krakow ghetto.
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Bomb planted by Count von Stafenberg fails to kill Hitler.
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Death march of inmates of Buchenwald.
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V-J Day.
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Japan surrenders, end of World War II.