World War II
Adolf Hitler’s Life
• http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/adolfhitler.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.jewishvirtu
allibrary.org/jsource/H
olocaust/hitleryouth.ht
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1933
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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 nonGerman 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.historyplac
e.com/worldwar2/time
line/nurem-laws.htm
1938
• Kristallnacht—Night
of Broken Glass
http://www.historyplac
e.com/worldwar2/time
line/knacht.htm
1939
• Hitler threatens the Jewish
people—
http://www.historyplace.com/w
orldwar2/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.c
om/worldwar2/timeline/st
paul.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 highestranking 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/w
orldwar2/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://worldwar2histor
y.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 Trials
http://www.historyplace.com/w
orldwar2/timeline/nurem.htm
• http://www.parade.com/news/2
010/04/04-the-last-nazihunter.html