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November 11,
1918
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1919
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- Treaty
of Versailles ‘imposed’ upon
Germany
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1921
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- economic
crisis (inflation) in Germany
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April, 1920
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- Hitler
leaves German Army to enter politics
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November, 1923
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- Hitler’s
Beer Hall Putsch (illegal, violent seizure of power)
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1925
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- Publication
of Mein Kampf (My
Struggle)
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November 1932
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- Elections:
Nazi Party largest party in Reichstag
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January 30, 1933
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- Hitler
sworn in as elected chancellor
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February 27, 1933
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- Reichstag
fire – Communists “plot” exposed
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February 28, 1933
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- Hitler
declares state of emergency
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March 5, 1933
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- Election:
Nazi hold 51% of the seats with only 44% of popular vote
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1933
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- Hitler
removes Germany
from League of Nations
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June 30, 1934
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- “Blood
Purge” – SA officers and members killed by SS (Knight of the Long
Knives)
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August 2, 1934
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- President
Hindenburg dies – Hitler takes formal executive power
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1935
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- Nuremburg
Laws: Jews declared ‘subjects’ not ‘citizens’
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March 1936
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- Hitler
orders Wehrmacht (army) into Rhineland
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October 1936
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- Hitler
secures alliance with Mussolini
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November 1936
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- Germany
joins Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan
(aimed at Russia)
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1936
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- Hitler
sends German troops to support fascist Franco in Spain
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March 12, 1938
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- German
troops cross border with Austria
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Fall of 1938
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- Munich
Conference: Britain
and France
abandon Czechoslovakia
- - Sudetenland
goes to Germany
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August 1939
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- Nazi-Soviet
Pact (non-aggression) – stuns world
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September 1, 1939
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Spring 1940
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- Norway,
Denmark
conquered
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May 10, 1940
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- Germany
attacks France
through Ardennes forest (surprise)
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May 27 – June 4
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- Dunkirk
evacuation: BEF abandons France
– Europe is Hitler’s
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June 1940
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Summer/Fall 1940
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- Operation Sealion:
Battle of Britain
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Winter/Spring 1940-1
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- Hungary,
Rumania,
Bulgaria,
Greece, Yugoslavia
fall to Hitler
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June 22, 1941
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- Operation Barbarossa
(invasion of Soviet Union) by Germany
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December 1941
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- German
army at gates of Moscow
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December 7, 1941
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- Pearl
Harbor: USA
brought into war
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Winter 1942
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- After
disagreement with generals over war against Russia,
Hitler fired generals and took personal command of Wehrmacht
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Fall 1942/Winter 1943
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- Battle
of Stalingrad – first major German defeat on
mainland
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1943/44
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- Attempted
murders against Hitler
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September 8, 1943
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June 6, 1966
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- Operation
Overlord “D-Day” – Invasion of Nzi Occupied Europe
(France)
by Allies
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April 1945
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- Allied
forces at gates of Moscow
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April 30, 1945
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- Hitler
kills himself in bunker
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May 7, 1945
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