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Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany
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First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin.
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Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops.
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Nazis open Dachau concentration camp.
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Germany quits the League of Nations.
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Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
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Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription.
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British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich.
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Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass.
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Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.
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Nazis take Czechoslovakia.
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Nazis and Soviets sign Pact.
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Nazis invade Poland.
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Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany
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British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy
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Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany.
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Soviets attack Finland.
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Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands;
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Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.
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German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic
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German Blitz against Britain begins.
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President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act.
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Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia
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United States freezes German and Italian assets in America.
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Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars.
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Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev.
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
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United States and Britain declare war on Japan
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Hitler declares war on the United States.
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Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz.
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Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies
