WWII

  • Mein Kampf published

  • Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

  • First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg

  • Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power

  • Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops

  • Nazis burn books in Germany

  • Nazi open Dachau concentration camps

  • Germany quits League of Nations

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany

  • Hitler violates Treaty of Versailles

  • German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws

  • Olympic games begin in Berlin

  • Nazis and Soviets sign Pact

  • Nazis invade Poland

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

  • Soviets invade Poland

  • Assassination attempt of hitler fails

  • German U-boats attack merchant ships in the atlantic

  • United States military consciption

  • Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor

  • United States and Britain declare war on Japan

  • Hitler declares war on United States

  • Hitler takes complete control complete control of the German Army

  • First American forces arrive in Great Britain

  • Allied air raid causes a firestorm in Hamburg

  • British drop 3000 tons of bombs during an air raid on Hamburg Germany

  • D-Day landings on the northern coast of France

  • Allies enter Rome

  • Allies discover stolen Nazi art and wealth hidden in mines

  • Adolf Hitler commits Suicide

  • V-E Day

  • First Atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan.

  • Second bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan

  • Japanese sign the surrender agreement

  • United Nations is born