WWII Timeline - Fields

  • Last Allied troops leave Germany

    The last allied troops to leave Germany were the British army.
  • Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany

    Hindenburg was intiminated by Hitler's growing popularity and initially refused to make him chancellor.
  • Dachau opened

    31,951 people were killed in Dachau.
  • Hitler and Mussolini join forces

    Even though they didn't completely like each other, they joined forces.
  • Hitler named Fuhrer

    Reich Chancellor Hitler planned to use President Hindenburg's death as an opportunity to seize total power in Germany by elevating himself to the position of Fuhrer.
  • US signs neutrality acts

    President Frank D, Roosevelt signed it
  • Germany passes the Nuremburg Laws

  • Germany invades the Rhineland

    This action was directly against the Treaty of Versailles.
  • Navi/Soviet Non-aggression pact

    Shorty before world war two broke out in Europe, enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union suprised the world by signing the German-Soviet nonaggression pact.
  • Germany invades Poland

    the german soviet pact of august 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention.
  • Pogrom in Germany begins

    a pogrom is a violent riot aimed at massacre or persecution of an ethnic or religous group, particually one aimed at Jews.
  • Germany invades France

    German forces defeated allied forces in a series of mobile operations, eventually leading to the conquest of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands and the end of land operations on what had been the Western Front
  • Lend-lease act passed

    this act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States
  • Germany attacks Sovier Union

    Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa" Nazi germany invaded the soviet union
  • Germans surrender at Stalingrad

    nazi forces surrender at satlingrad
  • D Day

    allied forces staged an enormous assault on German positions
  • liberation of paris

    -was the most romantic even of ww2
  • Battle of the Bulge

    adolf hitler attempted to split the allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzreig thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp
  • Yalta conference

    the yalta conference was a meeting of british prime minister winston churchhill, soviet stalin, and president FDR as ww2 was winding down
  • roosevelt dies

    president roosevelt died of cerebal hemorrages
  • dachau liberated

    the US Seven Army's 45th infantry division Dachau, the first concentration camp eatablished by Germany
  • hitler commits suicide

    him and his wife commited suicide by taking cyanide