World War II

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World War II
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Adolf Hitlers Life

• http//www.historylearningsite.co.uk/adolf-hitler.
  htm

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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.

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1926

• Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) officially formed
• http//www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holoc
  aust/hitleryouth.html

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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 Nazis 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.

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1933

• Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses begins in
  Germany.
• Books by Jewish and non-German authors are
  publicly burned in Germany.
• The Peoples Radio is unveiledGermans are only
  allowed to listen to the stations on the Peoples
  Radio. In 1939, listening to enemy radio would
  become punishable by death

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1934

• Hitler is named the president and
  commander-in-chief of the German armed forceshe
  is the Fuhrer.

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1935

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

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1938

• KristallnachtNight of Broken Glass
• http//www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/kn
  acht.htm

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1939

• Hitler threatens the Jewish people
• http//www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/th
  reat.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

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1940

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

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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

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1942

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

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1944

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

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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/world
  war2/timeline/nurem.htm
• http//www.parade.com/news/2010/04/04-the-last-naz
  i-hunter.html