WWII Timeline

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  • First Concentration Camps

    The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as chacnellor

  • Beginning of a Communist Revolution

    the Reichstag building went up in flames. (Nazi's claimed the beginning of a revolution)

  • The Burning of the Books in Nazi Germany

    The burned books they they thought were "un-German", because they didn't want anybody to have any literature of their own. (Cultural, religion, etc..)

  • Eicke becomes Commandant

  • SS gains Independence

    The SS gained its independence from the SA.

  • President Hindenburg dies

    When the president died, Hitler combined the offices of Reich Chancellor and President.

  • Hitler announces the Nuremburg Laws

    These laws stripped Jews of their civil rights as German citizens and seperated them from Germans legally, socially, and politically.

  • SS Guard Units

    "Political Units on Alert" were renamed "SS Guard Units" (SS- Wachverbande)

  • Olympics

    Berlin hosted the Olympics. Hitler viewed this as a perfect oppurtunity to promote a favorable image of Nazism to the world.

  • SS Death's-Head Units

  • Columbia Haus facility holds prisoners

    The Columbia Haus facility held prisoners under investigation by the Gestapo (the German secret state police)

  • Four concentration camps left

    Only four concentration camps were left: Dachau, near munich; Sachsenchausen near Berlin; Buchenwald near Weimar; and Lichtenburg near Merseburg in Saxony for female prisoners.

  • Germany takes over Austria

    (without bloodshed)

  • Hitler eyes northwestern area of Czechoslovakia

  • "Night of Broken Glass"

  • Hitler gets ultimatum

    Germany invades Poland and annexes Danzig; Britian and France give Hitler ultimatum

  • War is declared

  • Bloodless conquest ends

    Nazi Germany expansion was because of a bloodless conquest between 1938-1939

  • Nazis invade the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg

  • Chamberlain resigns as Britian's prime minister; Churchhill takes over

  • Germans launch attacks in Balkans

    Germans launch attacks in Balkans. Yugoslavia surrenders- General Mihajlovic continues guerrilla warfare; Tito leads left-wing guerrillas

  • Nazi tanks enter Athens

    Remnants of British army quit Greece

  • British surrender Singapore to Japanese

  • Roosevelt orders Japanese/ JA to be exiled to "relocation centers"

    (for remainder of war)

  • US forces surrender

    We sureender on Bataan peninsula in Philippines