World War II Timeline by McKenzie Chamberlain

By MSChamb11
  • 1

    1

    Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany
  • 2

    2

    Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses
  • 3

    3

    Jews no longer allowed to serve in the German armed forces
  • 4

    4

    Jews no longer considered German citizens.
  • 5

    5

    Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens.
  • 6

    6

    Buchenwald concentration camp opens.
  • 7

    7

    All Jewish businesses forcibly handed over to Germans.
  • 8

    8

    Germany invades Poland (Start of WW2)
  • 9

    9

    Hitler presents Mussolini with the Madagascar Plan, to deport all Jews to the island near the shore of Eastern Africa.
  • 10

    10

    The first experimental gassings are conducted at Auschwitz.
  • 11

    11

    The Vitebsk ghetto is liquidated (More than 16,000 Jews killed)
  • 12

    12

    The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, US enters WW2.
  • 13

    13

    The Jewish underground in Vilna calls Jews to fight back against the Germans.
  • 14

    14

    The first transports of Jews from interment camp to Auschwitz.
  • 15

    15

    The Bialystok ghetto is liquidated.
  • 16

    16

    The Vilna underground uprising fails.
  • 17

    17

    Germans launch "Operation Harvest Festival", large scale mass executions to liquidate remaining Jews.
  • 18

    18

    An attempt to assassinate Hitler fails
  • 19

    19

    74,000 Jews are deported to Auschwitz.
  • 20

    20

    Auschwitz is abandoned; death march of prisoners begin.
  • 21

    21

    The Soviets liberate Auschwitz.
  • 22

    22

    Mussolini is shot and killed by Walter Audisio.
  • 23

    23

    Hitler and Eva Braun, commit suicide.
  • 25

    25

    Germany officially surrenders to the Allies.
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    24

    The U.S. drops atomic bombs on Japan.