WW2 By kevbravo252 Nov 11, 1918 End of WW1 Period: Nov 11, 1918 to Oct 16, 1946 WW2 Jun 28, 1919 Treaty of Versailles Jul 29, 1921 Hitler becmes leader of Nazi party Jan 30, 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germnay Mar 12, 1933 First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin. Mar 23, 1933 Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power. Aug 19, 1934 Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany. Nov 5, 1937 Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Conference. Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass. Jan 30, 1939 Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech. Sep 1, 1939 Nazis invade Poland Apr 9, 1940 Nazis invade Denmark and Norway May 10, 1940 Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister. May 15, 1940 Holland surrenders to the Nazis May 1, 1941 German attack on Tobruk is repulsed. Dec 7, 1941 Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree. Dec 11, 1941 Hitler declares war on the United States. Apr 3, 1942 Japanese-Americans sent to relocation centers. Jun 4, 1942 Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz. Jul 22, 1942 First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps; Treblinka extermination camp opened. May 12, 1944 Germans surrender in the Crimea. Jun 6, 1944 D-Day landings on the northern coast of France. Jun 27, 1944 U.S. troops liberate Cherbourg, France. Aug 25, 1944 Liberation of Paris.
