WWII Alexis Williams

By stormdrainsyo

  • Adolf Hitler

    Appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Von Hindenburg

  • First official Nazi Concentration Camp

    opens in Dachau, a small village located near Munich

  • Boycott

    On Jewish shops and businesses

  • Law

    excluding East European Jewish immigrants of German citizenship

  • Hitler Proclaims

    himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor). Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him

  • "Nuremberg Laws"

    first anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag

  • Jews

    Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew

  • Germans

    march into the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty

  • Hitler and Mussolini

    Form Rome-Berlin Axis

  • Anschluss (incorporation of Austria)

    all antisemitic decrees immediately applied in Austria

  • Evian Conference

    Held in Evian, France on the problem of Jewish refugees

  • Adolf Eichmann

    establishes the Office of Jewish Emigration in Vienna to increase the pace of forced emigration

  • Italy

    enacts sweeping antisemitic laws

  • Munich Conference

    Great Britain and France agree to German occupation of the Sudetenland, previously western Czechoslovakia
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    Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)

    anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland; 200 synagogues destroyed; 7,500 Jewish shops looted; 30,000 male Jews sent to concentration camps (Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen)

  • Begining of WWII

    Germany invades Poland. In the following weeks, 16.336 civilians are murdered by the Nazies in 714 localities. At least 5,000 victims were Jews

  • Jews in Germany

    occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star.
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    Ghettos

    such as the Lodz and Warsaw were sealed

  • German authorities

    begin rounding up Polish Jews for transfer to Warsaw Ghetto. 10,000 Jews died by starvation in the ghetto between January and June 1941.

  • Germany

    invades Soviet Union

  • Japanese

    attack Pearl Harbor

  • US Declares War

    Declares war on Japan and Germany

  • Wannsee Conference in Berlin

    Heydrich outlines plan to murder Europe's Jews
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    Mass of Jews exterminated

  • Germany occupies Hungary

  • German Officers

    A group of German Officers attempt to assassinate Hitler

  • Revolt

    Revolt by inmates at Auschwitz; one crematorium blown up;

  • Beginning of death march

    approximately 40,000 Jews from Budapest to Austria.
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    Death march for many camps

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    Liberation of 5 different camps

  • Hitler commits suicide

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    Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Japan surrenders; End of WWII