Hitler announces the creation of a new air force and began a draft that expanded the German army from 100,000-550,000 violating the treaty of Versailles
Hitler sends troops into rhineland a demilitarized area of Germany
Hitler and Mussolini form the Berlin Rome Axis
Germany and Japan form an alliance
Hitler and the nazi party took over Austria through political pressure and threat of invasion
Hitler demands control of Sudetenland and germany inhabited part of Czechoslovakia
Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia
Nazi soviet non-agression pact
Germany invades poland
France and Great Britain declare war on Germany
Period: to
Coby's Part - 1940-1945
Lodz Ghetto
(Litzmannstadt) sealed: 165,000 people in 1.6 square miles.
Germany invades
The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.
Germany attacks Yugoslavia and Greece
Occupation follows.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Extermination begins in Belzec
By end of 1942 600,000 Jews murdered.
Germans establish Treblinka concentration camp Summer Deportation of Jews to killing centers from Belgium, Croatia, France, the Netherlands, and Poland; armed resistance by Jews in ghettos of Kletzk, Kremenets, Lachva, Mir, and Tuchin.
German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad
Warsaw Ghetto revolt begins as Germans attempt to liquidate 70,000 inhabitants; Jewish underground fights Nazis until early June
D-Day: Allied invasion at Normandy.
Group of German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler.
Hitler commits suicide, liberation of Ravensbruck.
