WW2 Timeline By YOZPV Nov 11, 1918 WW1 ends Feb 27, 1925 Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi party Sep 30, 1928 Elie Wiesel is born Jan 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler is name chancellor of Germany Mar 1, 1933 1st concentration camp built Jun 14, 1933 Hitler targets the sick and disabled Aug 1, 1936 Berlin Olympics Sep 9, 1938 Kristallnacht Sep 3, 1939 Britain declares war on Germany Mar 1, 1940 Bombings start on Berlin May 10, 1940 Holland surrenders Sep 1, 1941 Jews were forced to wear yellow stars Sep 1, 1941 Gas Chambers used for the first time Dec 7, 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor May 13, 1943 Nazi's take over Northern Africa May 3, 1944 Elie Wiesel is deported Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Jan 15, 1945 Elie is sent to Buchenwald Jan 27, 1945 Soviets liberate Auschwitz Jan 28, 1945 Elie's Father dies Apr 11, 1945 Elie is liberated from Buchenwald Aug 6, 1945 U.S Nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima Aug 9, 1945 U.S Nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki May 14, 1948 State of Israel created