WWII Timeline By LittleEmu Jan 30, 1933 Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany Mar 23, 1933 Hitler becomes dictator of Germany Mar 23, 1933 Dachau becomes a concentration camp Sep 15, 1935 Nuremberg Laws put in effect Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht (Crystal Night) happens Mar 15, 1939 Nazis take Czechslovakia Apr 30, 1939 Jews are forced into ghettos Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland Sep 10, 1939 Canada declares war on Germany Oct 1, 1939 Euthanizing of sick and disabled in Germany ***No specific date Apr 9, 1940 Nazis conquer Norway and Denmark Aug 23, 1940 Nonaggression Pact between Soviet Union and Germany Sep 13, 1940 Italians invade Egypt Mar 1, 1941 Auschwitz becomes a concentration camp Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor Aug 25, 1944 Allies liberate Paris Jan 26, 1945 Russia liberates Auschwitz Aug 6, 1945 Hiroshima atomic bomb Aug 9, 1945 Nagasaki atomic bomb Sep 2, 1945 World War II ends *Japan signs treaty