History Timeline

By josmiller
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    WW2

  • The German Gestapo is placed above the law.

  • Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia.

  • Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia.

  • Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation on October 25; on November 1, the Rome-Berlin Axis is announced.

  • Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement.

  • Japan invades China, initiating World War II in the Pacific.

  • The Hossbach Memorandum

    On November 5, 1937, Adolf Hitler held a secret conference in the Reich Chancellery during which he revealed his plans for the acquisition of Lebensraum, or living space, for the German people at the expense of other nations in Europe.

  • Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss.

  • German military mobilizes.

  • Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland, including the key Czechoslovak military defense positions, to Nazi Germany.

  • Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.

    ...if the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a World War, then the result will not be the Bolshevizing of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!

  • Under German pressure, the Slovaks declare their independence and form a Slovak Republic. The Germans occupy the rump Czech lands in violation of the Munich agreement, forming a Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

  • France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state.

  • Fascist Italy invades and annexes Albania.

  • Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy.

  • Warsaw surrenders to Nazis

    http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/parade.htm

  • Nazi-Soviet Pact

    http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/pact.htm

  • Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany.

    http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/euthanasia.htm

  • Rationing begins in Britain.

  • Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.

  • Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.

  • Evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk begins.

  • Italy declares war on Britain and France.

  • United States military conscription bill passed.

  • Massive German air raid on London.

    http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/stpaul.htm