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World War II

World War II. Adolf Hitler’s Life. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/adolf-hitler.htm.

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World War II

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  1. World War II

  2. Adolf Hitler’s Life • http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/adolf-hitler.htm

  3. 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. 1923

  4. 1926 • Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) officially formed http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitleryouth.html

  5. 1933 • 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.

  6. Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses begins in Germany. Books by Jewish and non-German 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 1933

  7. Hitler is named the president and commander-in-chief of the German armed forces—he is the Fuhrer. 1934

  8. 1935 • The Nuremberg Laws strip Jewish people of their German citizenship and civil liberties http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/nurem-laws.htm

  9. 1938 • Kristallnacht—Night of Broken Glass http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/knacht.htm

  10. 1939 • Hitler threatens the Jewish people— http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/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

  11. 1940 • Germany bombs England from the air http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/stpaul.htm • Germany conquers Denmark, Norway, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands

  12. 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 highest-ranking 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/worldwar2/holocaust/h-b-yar.htm

  13. 1942 • Nazis hold Wannsee Conference to formalize plans for the “final solution of the Jewish problem.” • Germany moves deeper into Russia

  14. 1944 • Allied troops launch D-Day invasion http://worldwar2history.info/D-Day/ • Soviet troops begin to take back Russia

  15. 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 Trialshttp://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/nurem.htm • http://www.parade.com/news/2010/04/04-the-last-nazi-hunter.html

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