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Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
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First official Nazi concentration camp opens in Dachau
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Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses
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First anti-Jewish racial laws enacted
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Germany defines a Jew anyone with Jewish grandparents
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Buchenwald concentration camp opens
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Beginning of World War 2, Germany invades Poland
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First Polish ghetto established in Piotrkow
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Germans occupy Denmark and southern Norway
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Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France
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France surrenders
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Germany invades the Soviet Union
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Heydrich appointed by Goring to implement the Final Solution
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Battle of Britain begins
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Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
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United States declares war on Japan and Germany
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Germany occupies Hungary
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D-Day: Allied invasion at Normandy
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Liberation of Buchenwald
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Hitler commits suicide, liberation of Ravensbruck
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Germany surrenders
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Bombing of Hiroshima
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Bombing of Nagasaki
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Victory over Japan proclaimed
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Japan surrenders; end of World War 2