Road to WW2 timeline 2 boi

  • Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party

  • Beer Hall Putsch

    Nov 8-9
    Failed Nazi Party coup attempt, lead to Hitlers arrest and his time in jail were he wrote "Mein Kampf"
  • Mein Kampf is published.

  • German is admittted to the League of Nations

  • U.S. stock market crashes

    Economic depression spreads worldwide.
  • Nazi party gains numerous seats in the gov.

    Nazi party becomes the second most popular party in Germany
  • Franklin Roosevelt elected President of the U.S.

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • Reichstag fire

  • First concentration camp

    The first concentration camp opens in Orienburg, outside Berlin. Jews and political opponents were sent here.
  • Enabling Act is passed

    The Enabling Act is passed which gives Hitler increased powers
  • Boycott of Jewish owned shops in Germany

  • Nazi book burnings

    Books containing "unGerman ideas" are burned in Germany.
  • Dachau is opened

    Dauchau is opened to allow the storage of political opponets to the Nazi party
  • Nazi party declared Germany's only political party

  • Germany quits the League of Nations

    Germany leaves the league of nations claiming that it limited their military
  • Night of the Long Knives

    Nazi's eliminate all their opposition, including the elimination of the SA
  • Austrian Chancellor Dolfuss assassinated by the Nazi's

  • German President Hindenburg dies

  • Hitler becomes the dictator of Germany, he takes the title Fuhrer

  • Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles

    Hitler introduces military conscription
  • Nuremburg Laws

    Nuremburg laws excluded Jews from German citizenship
  • Gestapo placed above the law

  • German troops occupy the Rhineland.

  • Italy takes over Ethiopia

  • Spanish Civil War begins

    Hitler lends aid to Nationalist forces by sending air and armored units.
  • Fransisco Franco declared head of the Spanish state

  • Stalin begins a purge of his Army Generals

  • Hossbach Conference

    Hitler presents plans to invade neighboring nations to acquire living space for Germans.
  • Hitler announces the Anschluss

    Mar 12-13
    Austria is united with Germany
  • Germany's military mobilizes

  • British PM Chamberlain appeases Germany.

  • Germany annexes the Sudetenland.

  • Kristallnacht

    Nov 9-10
    Nazis destroy Jewish stores
  • Germany fines the Jews one billion marks.

  • Jewish students expelled from non-Jewish schools.