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beginning
Japan invades Manchuria -
october 25 - November 1,1936
Nazi Germany and facist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation. -
July 7 1937
Japan invades China iniation WW2 in the pacific -
August 23, 1939
Germany and the soviet Union signes a nonaggression agreement. -
Germany enters Poland
germany invades poland, initiating ww2 in Europe. -
Moving to Hungary
Elie Wiesel and his family become residents of Hungary. -
June 10 1940
Italy enters the war. italy invades southern france on june 21 -
march 1, 1941
bulgaria joins the axis. -
Kabbalah
Twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel begins studying the Kabbalah. -
december 7 1941
japan bombs Pearl Harbor -
December,8 1941
U.S. declares war on Japan entering ww2. -
december 11 1941
Germany and its axis partners declare war on the US -
US, British in Sicily
US and british troops in sicily -
The Ghetos
Elie and the others are moved into ghetos -
harder punishments
harder punishments are being placed upon the Jews -
Elie gets deported
Elie Wiesel is fifteen years old when he and his family are deported in May 1944 by the Hungarian gendarmerie and the German SS and police from Sighet to Auschwitz. His mother and younger sister perish; his two older sisters survive. -
Elie and his father are sent to Auschwitz
Elie and his father are sent to Auschwitz -
US in Philippines
us troops land in the philippines -
Transfered to Buchenwald
SS units evacuate Auschwitz in January. Elie and his father are transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar Germany. Elie's father dies in January; Elie is liberated with the arrival of US troops in April. -
April 16 1945
the soviets launch their final offensive, encircling berlin. -
april 30 1945
Hitler commits suicide -
may 7 1945
germany surrenders to allies -
august 6 1945
US drops an atomic bomb on hiroshima