WW2 Timeline by JASON CARROLL

  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany

    This is an important turning point for Germany. It also turned out to be important for the world. Hitler's plan, was to do away with politics and make Germany a powerful, one-party state. He started right away with ordering more state police. He formed the Gestapo, and was dedicated to stamping out opposition to his agenda.
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  • Dachau Concentration Camp

    Dachau Concentration Camp

    Intended to hold political prisoners without trial. It was the first concentration camp. It is located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory northeast of the medieval town of Dachau. This is northwest of Munich
  • Boycott

    Boycott

    Nazi's declared a boycott on all Jewish businesses.
  • Gestapo

    Gestapo

    This was the beginning of the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe.
  • Public Book Burnings

    Public Book Burnings

    This started a campaign conducted by the German Student Union to ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s. The books targeted for burning were those viewed as representing ideologies opposed to Nazism or Jewish beliefs.
  • Kristallnact

    Kristallnact

    This was an organized incident known as “Kristallnacht”, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, also called the “Night of Broken Glass,” This put fear into the hearts of the Jews.
  • Nuremberg Laws

    Nuremberg Laws

    The Nuremberg Laws were anti-Jewish statutes enacted by Germany on September 15, 1935, marking a major step in clarifying racial policy and removing any Jewish influences.
  • No more Jew or Women doctors

    No more Jew or Women doctors

    Jewish and female doctors were not allowed to practice medicine in Germany during Hitler’s rule from 1933 to 1945. This led to a decline in healthcare with having less doctors
  • Buchenwald Concentration Camp

    Buchenwald Concentration Camp

    This concentration camp was one of the largest and it opened for Men only at first. It was for political prisioners until Kristallnacht. Then it kept Jews. There were also medical experimentations done at this camp.
  • Jewish Students Expelled

    Jewish Students Expelled

    There were already limitations on jewish kids attending school, but at this time they were forbidden. There was alot of focus on race classes.
  • Ghettos

    Ghettos

    Jews are evicted from their homes and moved into ghettos.
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

    After several warnings about taking over other countries, Germany ignores them and takes Poland.
  • Roosevelt Again!

    Roosevelt Again!

    The democrats elect FDR to run for a third term. He wins by a landslide!
  • Auschwitz

    Auschwitz

    It was he largest of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps and extermination centers. It was located in German occupied Poland.
  • France Surrenders

    France Surrenders

    Petain arranged an armistice with the Nazis. More than half of France was occupied by the Germans. In July, Petain took office as “chief of state” at Vichy, a city in unoccupied France. The Vichy government under Petain collaborated with the Nazis, and French citizens suffered on both sides of the divided nation.
  • Britian's Finest Hour

    Britian's Finest Hour

    WInston Churchill gives a speech with anticipation of the war about to start. He encourages his men with strong words eventhough he has only been prime minister for just over a month.
  • US Withholds Gasoline from Japan

    US Withholds Gasoline from Japan

    President Roosevelt swung into action by freezing all Japanese assets in America. Britain and the Dutch East Indies followed suit. The result: Japan lost access to three-fourths of its overseas trade and 88 percent of its imported oil. Japan’s oil reserves were only sufficient to last three years, and only half that time if it went to war and consumed fuel at a more frenzied pace.
  • British Bomb Berlin

    British Bomb Berlin

    95 aircraft were dispatched to bomb Tempelhof Airport near the center of Berlin and Siemensstadt, of which 81 dropped their bombs in and around Berlin, and while the damage was slight, the psychological effect on Hitler was greater.
  • Japan Joins Axis

    Japan Joins Axis

  • US seized German ships

    US seized German ships

    The US started keeping the German ships under protective custody until the end of the war.
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in a sneaky attack that no one was ready for.
  • US enters WW2

    US enters WW2

    The US entered the war against Japan and Germany.
  • Belzec extermination camp

    Belzec extermination camp

    This is the extermination gas chambers you read about. The Jews were brutally pushed to "the tube" and into the gas chambers which were disguised as "showers." The brutalized and disoriented Jews, often weak from hours or days spent in cattle trucks, had barely any time to evaluate their fate or react defensively.
  • Operation "Torch"

    Operation "Torch"

    US troops land in Africa led by Eisenhower.
  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad

    This battle is the turning point of the war.
  • Warsaw ghetto revolt

    Warsaw ghetto revolt

    The Jewish underground fight against the Nazis. The revolt in the Warsaw ghetto had broad implications. The Poles were impressed with the revolt and realized that even a handful of people, with a minimal amount of weapons, could cause great damage to the enemy in city fighting, and could tie down large forces.
  • D-Day in Europe

    D-Day in Europe

    Simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France.
  • Assasination Attempt

    Assasination Attempt

    A group of German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler. Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. The name Operation Valkyrie—originally referring to part of the conspiracy—has become associated with the entire event.
  • Auschwitz Liberated

    Auschwitz Liberated

    Russia Liberated the Concentration camps. They rescue 7,000 prisoners, most of whom are ill and dying.
  • FDR dies

    FDR dies

    He collapsed and died as a result of a cerebral hemorrhage before the end of the war. Truman takes office and "The Buck Stops Here"
  • Mussolini dies

    Mussolini dies

    He was viciously murdered and mutilated. He was upside down by his feet.
  • Hitler Commited suicide

    Hitler Commited suicide

    They say he used cyanide on his family and dogs and left a letter. We found a skull and teeth fragmants. He was probably worried about what had happened to Mussolini so he shot himself.
  • Atomic Bombs

    Atomic Bombs

    Truman ordered the atomic bombs to be dropped on Heroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. This caused Japan to surrender.
  • End of WW2

    End of WW2

    Day the Japanese delegation formally signs the instrument of surrender on board the USS Missouri, marking the official ending of World War II.