Hitler’s Rise to Power
Date
Event
1924
Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf
1926
The Hitler Youth is officially
formed.
January 30,
1933
Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor
of Germany.
February
27-28,
1933
March 22,
1933
Fire destroys the Reichstag.
March 23,
1933
The Enabling Act
April 1,
1933
Nazi organized nationwide boycott
of Jewish-owned businesses in
Germany.
Law for the Restoration of the
Professional Civil Service
April 7,
1933
April 25,
1933
May 10,
1933
Law Against the Overcrowding of
German Schools and Institutions of
Higher Learning.
Nazi party burned books written by
Jews, political opponents, and the
intellectual avant-garde.
The Law against the Formation of
Parties and Law for the Prevention of
Offspring with Hereditary Disease
June 30July 2, 1934
The Night of Long Knives
August 2,
1934
Paul von Hindenburg, president of
Germany, dies.
March 16,
1935
Hitler rejects the Treaty of
Versailles and begins to draft
Germans into military service.
Nuremberg Laws
September
15, 1935
Effect/Explanation/ Significance
Dachau concentration camp
established.
July 14,
1933
September
15, 1935
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Germany gets a new flag.
Draw the new German flag here.
Hitler’s Rise to Power
November German law defines who is a Jew.
15, 1935
August 116, 1936
Summer Olympic Games held in
Berlin, Germany.
April 26,
1938
All Jewish property must be
registered with the Nazis.
July 6-15,
1938
Evian Conference
September
29-30,
1938
November
9-10, 1938
Munich Pact
November
15, 1938
Jewish children prohibited from
attending German schools.
January 30,
1939
Hitler declares that if there is war,
the Jews of Europe will be
destroyed.
900 Jewish refugees aboard the St.
Louis are denied entry into Cuba
and the US.
Germany invades Poland.
May 13June 17,
1939
September
1, 1939
September
27, 1939
Kristallnacht
“The Night of Broken Glass”
German orders are issued to
establish ghettos in Poland.
October 24, Jews in Wloclawek, Poland are
1939
required to wear a large yellow
triangle. By November, all Jews
were required to wear identifying
badges on their arms or chests.
October
T-4 Program
1939
April 27,
1940
December
7, 1941
January 20,
1942
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Orders are issued to set up a
concentration camp at Auschwitz,
Poland.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
Wannsee Conference
Draw at least one of these badges here.
Hitler’s Rise to Power
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