World War II Timeline- Sarah E. Hoyle

By hoyles

  • Hitler takes power over Germany

    Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany, his Nazi party takes power and Hitler is now essentially dictator of Germany

  • Reichstag fire

    Reichstag fire, the German parliament building burned down due to arson

  • Dachau concentration camp opens

    the first Nazi concentration camp was opened with the arrival of about 200 prisoners

  • Book Burnings

    book burning, books deemed “un-German” were publicly burned throughout Germany

  • October 1934-Prisoner count

    24,000 prisoners in concentration camps

  • Summer 1935-Prisoner count

    3,800 prisoners in concentration camps

  • September 1935-Nuremberg Laws

    Nuremberg Laws make German Jews second-class citizens

  • Prisoner count

    4,761 prisoners in concentration camps

  • Japan invades China

  • Buchenwald concentration camp opens

  • June 1938

    first official execution in a concentration camp

  • Mid November 1938-Prisoner count

    50,000 prisoners in concentration camps

  • March 1938- German annexation of Austria

  • Kristallnacht

    members of the Nazi party burn synagogues, loot Jewish homes and businesses killing at least 91 Jews

  • Antisemitic legislation

    a new German decree closes all Jewish-owned businesses

  • first kindertransport arrives

    first kindertransport arrives in Great Britain, Jewish parents send their unaccompanied children abroad to escape Nazi persecution

  • Passports invalid

    German Jews’ passports declared invalid

  • Ghettos established

    huge Jewish ghettos were established to house Jews taken from their homes

  • World War II begins

    Hitler invades Poland and World War II begins

  • France and Great Britain declare war on Germany

  • September 1941-Jews forced to wear star of David

    the German government called for all Jews in German territory to wear the star of David

  • 1941-Jews went into hiding

    once the Jews realized their lives were in danger many left the country or went into hiding

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Germany declares war against the USA

  • World War II came to an end