Years of Crisis Timeline

By Tia_meow

  • Treaty of Versailles Signed

  • Hitler becomes head of Nationalist (Nazi) Party

  • Stock Market Crashes on Wall Street

    Stock Market Crashes on Wall Street

    This is important because this is when the Great Depression hit the US. There were already economic problems going on in the rest of the world. The US had a facade of a good economy that had finally broken.

  • Nazis Put into Power

  • Franklin Roosevelt is elected as US President

    Franklin Roosevelt is elected as US President

    This is important because he is the one who eventually gets the US involved in the war after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

  • Hitler becomes German Chancellor

  • First Concentration Camp

    First Concentration Camp

    Located in an area outside Berlin called Oranienburg, this was Hitler's first offence against the Jews.
  • Hitler becomes German Führer

    Hitler becomes German Führer

    This is when Hitler attained full control of Germany. Hitler being in total power as a dictator caused the long chain of events throughout WWII.
  • Hitler introduces military conscription

    Hitler introduces military conscription

    Introducing military conscription was in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
  • Hitler tells of his battle plans

    Hitler tells of his battle plans

    Hossbach Conference, Hitler swore his men to secrecy so he could give the information for what was to happen.

  • The Nazi army begins to mobilize

  • German Invasion of Poland