WW2 / Night 8th Hour English Timeline By Dill Pickley Nov 11, 1918 End of WW1 Feb 27, 1925 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi party Sep 30, 1928 Elie Wiesel is born Oct 29, 1929 US Stock Market Crash Jan 30, 1933 Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany Aug 1, 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht Mar 1, 1939 1st concentration camp (Dachau) near Berlin opens Sep 3, 1939 Britain, France Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany Oct 1, 1939 Nazis begin euthanasia on the sick and disabled. May 10, 1940 Nazis invade the Netherlands (Holland) Sep 1, 1941 Nazis force Jews to wear identifying yellow stars Sep 1, 1941 Gas chambers used for the first time in Auschwitz Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbour Nov 8, 1942 Nazis invade northern Africa Mar 4, 1944 Allies bomb Berlin May 1, 1944 Elie & his family are deported from Hungary Jun 6, 1944 Allied Forces D-Day Invasion Jan 1, 1945 Eli & his father are transferred to Buchenwald Jan 27, 1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz Jan 29, 1945 Eli's father dies in Buchenwald Apr 11, 1945 Elie liberated from Buchenwald Aug 6, 1945 USA drops nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. Aug 9, 1945 U.S. drops nuclear bomb on Nagasaki. Sep 2, 1945 End of World War 2 May 14, 1948 The state of Israel is born
