World War II Timeline by Grace Roberts

By gmroberts91

  • January 30, 1933

    Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population

  • February 27, 1933

    Nazis burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere

  • July 14, 1933

    Nazi part is declared the only legal party in Germany

  • January 24, 1934

    Jews are banned from the German Labor Front

  • May 17, 1934

    Jews not allowed national health insurance

  • July 22, 1934

    Jews are prohibited from getting legal qualifications

  • August 19, 1934

    Hitler receives a 90 percent ‘yes’ vote from German voters approving his new powers

  • June 26, 1935

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

  • January 1937

    Jews are banned from many professional occupations

  • March 13, 1938

    Nazi troops enter Austria

  • Juy 25, 1938

    Jewish doctors prohibited by law from practicing medicine

  • January 20, 1939

    Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech

  • February 21, 1939

    Nazi force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items

  • April 30, 1939

    Jews lose rights as tenants and are relocated into Jewish houses

  • July 3, 1939

    German Jews denied the right to hold government jobs

  • September 3, 1939

    Great Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • October 6, 1939

    Proclamation by Hitler on the isolation of Jews

  • April 9, 1940

    Nazis invade Denmark

  • March 7, 1941

    German Jews ordered into forced labor

  • September 29, 1941

    23,000 Jews killed

  • February 2, 1943

    Jews working in Berlin armaments industry are sent to Auschwitz

  • May 15, 1944

    Beginning of the deportation of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz

  • January 18, 1945

    Nazis evacuate 66,000 from Auschwitz

  • April 23, 1945

    Berlin is reached by Russian troops

  • April 30, 1945

    Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps