WW2 Part 2

By prydejo

  • The German Gestapo is placed above the law

    Gestapo is the German secret police

  • German Troops occupy the Rhineland

    Western Germany along the Rhine River

  • Mussolini's Italian forces take Etheopia

  • Civil war erupts in Spain

    Germany were on the side of the Nationalists

  • Francisco Franco declared head of Spanish State

  • Stalin begins a purge of Red Army Generals

  • Hitler reveals war plans at the Hossbach Conference

  • Hitler announces the Anchluss

    Anchluss: A union with Austria

  • German military mobilizes

  • British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich

  • German troops occupy Sudetenland, Czech Gov resigns

    Northern, Southern, and Western areas of Czechoslovakia= Sudetenland

  • Kristallnacht

    (Night of Broken Glass)A massive coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich, where synagogues were burned and Jewish owned shops were vandalized.

  • The Nazis force the Jews to pay 1 million Mavks for the damage done on Kristallnacht

  • Jewish pupils are expelled from all non-Jewish German Schools

  • Herman Goring is put in charge of resolving the "Jewish question"

    He was president of the Reichstag

  • Reinhard Heydrich is ordered to speed up the emigration of Jews.

    Haydrich was the Chief of the Reich main security office

  • The Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items

  • Spanish Civil war ends

  • Nazis take Czechoslovakia

  • Jewish lose rights to tenants and are relocated into Jewish houses

  • The St. Louis a ship crowded with 930 Jewish refugees is turned away by Cuba and the U.S.

    Eventually let in by France and Great Britain, but during the war 630 of the 930 die

  • Nazis sign 'pact of steel' with Italy

    The pact of steel made Germany and Italy allies

  • Adolf Eichmann is appointed Director of the Prague Office of Jewish Emigration

    Eichmann was head of the SS and in charge of the Holocost

  • Nazis and Soviets sign a pact as assurance that Germany would not fight a war on two fronts again.

  • Poland and Great Britain agree on a Mutual assistance treaty

  • Britain fleet mobilizes, Civilian evacuations begin in London

  • Nazis invade Poland which starts the war

    Jews are forbidden to be out after 8 in the winter and 9 in the summer

  • Warsaw is cut off by the German Army

    Warsaw is the capital of Poland

  • U.S. proclaims neutrality

  • Canada declares war on Germany, the Battle of the Atlantic begins

  • Soviet Union invades Poland

    Due to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact

  • Heydrich proclaims that all Jews are to vbe gathered into ghettos for the final plan.

    He established councils to implement Nazi policies in the ghettos

  • German Jews are forbidden to own wireless radio sets

  • Warsaw surrenders to the Nazis

  • Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland

    61.2% of Jews live in German areas
    38.8% of Jews live in Soviet areas

  • Nazis start to euthanize the sick and disabled

  • Hans Frank is appointed as the Nazi gauleiter of poland

    Gauleiter = governor
    Frank oversaw the segregation of Jews into ghettos

  • Polish Jews ages 14-60 have forced labor decree

  • Assassination attempt on Hitler fails

    Johann Georg Elser planted a bomb at Hitlers speaking platform, but Hitler left earlier than expected

  • Polish Jews who are over the age of 10 are required to wear yellow stars