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Start of the German Revolution.
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Intellectuals in China entertain Marxist ideals that lead to the May Fourth Movement.
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The Nazi Party is formed, with Hitler giving emotional speeches between February and March.
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The Soviet Communist Party appoints Josef Stalin as General Secretary.
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Italy, Japan, the UK, and the USA agree to regulate submarine warfare and shipbuilding by signing the London Naval Treaty. Japan would later renounce their agreement under this treaty.
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Nazi Germany completes the Annexation or Anschluss of Austria. Austria was the first country to be annexed by Hitler’s Germany.
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World War II begins when Nazi Germany invades Poland. France and Britain declare war on Germany.
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The Lend-Lease program enabled the UK, Soviet Union, France, and other Allied nations to receive war material from the United States.
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President Roosevelt signs the Executive Order 9066 also known as the Japanese-American Internment order.
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Camp staff set fire to the large crematorium used to burn bodies of murdered prisoners, but in the hasty evacuation the gas chambers were left standing. In the summer of 1944, the Soviets also overran the sites of the Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka killing centers.
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The Soviets liberated Auschwitz, the largest killing center and concentration camp, in January 1945. The Nazis had forced the majority of Auschwitz prisoners to march westward (in what would become known as "death marches"), and Soviet soldiers found only several thousand emaciated prisoners alive when they entered the camp.
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U.S. troops land on Okinawa, the Battle of Okinawa takes place.
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Liberated from concentration camps
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US forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, on April 11, 1945, a few days after the Nazis began evacuating the camp. On the day of liberation, an underground prisoner resistance organization seized control of Buchenwald to prevent atrocities by the retreating camp guards. American forces liberated more than 20,000 prisoners at Buchenwald.
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The end of World War II in Europe when Germany start surrendering.
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The first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima and two days later on Nagasaki.
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Elie moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne
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Elies work in journalism begins
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Decides to write about the Holocaust
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Night is published
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Receives USA citizenship
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Returned to Sighet
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first trip to Russia
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Publishes Jews of Silence
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Married Marion Rose
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son is born
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Appointed chair of Presidential Commission on the Holocaust
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Awarded Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement
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Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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Publishes Memoirs
