WWII By meganvelikanje Sep 14, 1930 Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany Jan 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany Mar 12, 1933 First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin Mar 23, 1933 Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power Apr 1, 1933 Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops Jul 25, 1934 Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss Aug 19, 1934 Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany Sep 15, 1935 German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws Mar 7, 1936 German troops occupy the Rhineland Nov 5, 1937 Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Conference Oct 15, 1938 German troops occupy the Sudetenland - Czech government resigns Mar 15, 1939 Nazis take Czechoslovakia Aug 23, 1939 Nazis and Soviets sign Pact Sep 1, 1939 Nazis invade Poland Sep 3, 1939 Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany Oct 1, 1939 Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany Apr 9, 1940 Nazis invade Denmark and Norway May 10, 1940 Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands Jun 6, 1940 Germans bomb Paris Jul 10, 1940 Battle of Britain begins Aug 23, 1940 First German air raids on London Aug 25, 1940 First British air raid on Berlin Nov 5, 1940 Roosevelt re-elected US President Sep 29, 1941 Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor Dec 8, 1941 United States and Britain declare war on Japan Dec 11, 1941 Hitler declares war on the United States Jun 1, 1942 Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz Jan 27, 1943 First bombing raid by Americans on Germany at Wilhelmshaven Feb 2, 1943 Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's army May 13, 1943 German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa Oct 13, 1943 Italy declares war on Germany May 2, 1944 Germans surrender in the Crimea Jun 22, 1944 US troops liberate Cherbourg, France Jul 24, 1944 Soviet troops liberate first concentration camp at Majdanek Oct 21, 1944 Massive German surrender at Aachen, Germany Jan 26, 1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz Apr 28, 1945 Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans Apr 29, 1945 US 7th Army liberates Dachau Apr 30, 1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide Jun 5, 1945 Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government Aug 6, 1945 First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan Aug 14, 1945 Japanese agree to unconditional surrender Nov 5, 1945 Nuremberg war crimes trials begin
