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World War II
Adolf Hitler’s Life
• http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/adolf-hitler.htm
1923
• Adolf Hidler leads the Beer hall Putsch in Munich, Germany, which was an attempt to take over the German government. The attempt fails, and Hitler is arrested and sent to jail, where he writes Mein Kampf, a book about the superiority of the German, Aryan, race and the inferiority of all others. After his release, Hitler begins to build the Nazi party.
1926
• Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) officially formed
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitleryouth.html
1933• Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor
of Germany after becoming a gifted speaker and promising the German people a solution to their economic problems.
• The Nazi’s burn the Reichstag.• Dauchau, the first concentration
camp, was opened in Germany and used by the Nazis as a camp for political prisoners. Nazis wanted racial purity and believed that Jews, Slavs, Romas, Communists, homosexuals, and physically and mentally disabled were ruining the chances for racial purity.
1933
• Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses begins in Germany.
• Books by Jewish and non-German authors are publicly burned in Germany.
• The People’s Radio is unveiled—Germans are only allowed to listen to the stations on the People’s Radio. In 1939, listening to enemy radio would become punishable by death
1934
• Hitler is named the president and commander-in-chief of the German armed forces—he is the Fuhrer.
1935
• The Nuremberg Laws strip Jewish people of their German citizenship and civil liberties
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/nurem-laws.htm
1938
• Kristallnacht—Night of Broken Glass
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/knacht.htm
1939
• Hitler threatens the Jewish people—
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/threat.htm
• World War II begins when Germany invades Poland and England and France declare war on Germany
• Nazis begin killing sick and disabled in Germany
• Deportation of Jewish people to concentration camps begins
1940
• Germany bombs England from the air
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/stpaul.htm
• Germany conquers Denmark, Norway, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
1941• Jewish forced to wear yellow
stars• Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor• United States declares war on
Japan• Germany declares war on the
United States• Rudolf Hess, the third highest-
ranking Nazi, deserts and flies secretly to England to negotiate a peace agreement
• Mass murder of 33,000 Jews at Babi-Yar in Russia
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-b-yar.htm
1942
• Nazis hold Wannsee Conference to formalize plans for the “final solution of the Jewish problem.”
• Germany moves deeper into Russia
1944
• Allied troops launch D-Day invasion
http://worldwar2history.info/D-Day/
• Soviet troops begin to take back Russia
1945
• Germany collapses as Allied troops invade
• Hitler commits suicide at his bunker, but the Nazis lie, telling German people that Hitler was killed at the head of his troops defending Berlin.
• Germany surrenders unconditionally
• Nuremberg Trialshttp://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/nurem.htm
• http://www.parade.com/news/2010/04/04-the-last-nazi-hunter.html