WWII

By Roariloveyou

  • Hitler's book

    Mein Kampf published

  • Franklin Roosevelt

    Elected President of the United States

  • First concentration camp opened

    Oranienburg outside Berlin

  • Adolf Hitler to become leader

    He led the National Socialists or Nazis. He promised that he would restore Germany. He built their army back up and began taking land back from other countries.

  • Nazi boycott

    Of Jewish owned shops

  • Nazis burn books in Germany

  • Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party

  • Germany quits the League of Nations

  • Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles

    By introducing military conscription

  • German Jews stripped of rights

    By Nuremberg Race Laws.

  • The German Gestapo is placed above the law

  • German troops occupy the Rhineland

  • Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia

  • Civil war erupts in Spain

  • Spanish Civil war ends

  • Soviet leader Josef Stalin begins a purge of Red Army generals

  • Germany announces union with Austria

  • Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany

  • United States proclaims its neutrality

    German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland

  • German troops occupy the Sudetenland

    And the Czech government resigns

  • Kristallnacht

    A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich

  • Nazis take Czechoslovakia

  • Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy

  • Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy

  • British fleet mobilizes

    Civilian evacuations begin from London

  • German forces invaded Poland

    Tanks poured into the country helped by bombers overhead. A total of 1.25 million Germans soldiers filed into Poland.
    When Hitler refused to stop, Britain and France declared war on Germany.

  • British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy

  • Canada declares war on Germany

    Battle of the Atlantic begins

  • Soviets invade Poland.

  • Warsaw surrenders to Nazis

  • Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland

  • D-day

  • Roosvelt died in Truman took over as president

  • V-E day

  • Atomic bomb of Hiroshima

  • The bombing of Nagasaki

  • V-J day

  • Grandpa's bday

  • grannys birthday