Events leading up to WW2

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin.

  • Germany quits the League of Nations

  • Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss.

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.

  • German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws

  • Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Conference

  • Germany announces a union with Austria.

  • Nazis take Czechoslovakia

  • Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty

  • Nazis invade Poland; Start of WW2