1. Brief Timeline of the Second World War 1933-1945
1/30/33: Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
March 1933: First concentration camp built in Germany (Dachau)
8/2/34: Hitler is elected Führer
3/16/35: Nazis repudiate Versailles Treaty
9/15/35: Nuremberg Laws are passed in Germany
9/1/39: Germany invades Poland and begins WWII
5/8/45: VE Day
5/10/36: Italy annexes Abyssinia
6/22/41: Germany invades the USSR
8/6/45: Hiroshima
8/9/45: Nagasaki
8/1/36: Berlin Olympic games held
12/7/41: Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
4/9/42: Bataan Death March
8/15/45: VJ Day
4/18/42: Battle of Midway
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8/23/43: Battle of Stalingrad
6/7/37: Second Sino-Japanese War Begins
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12/12/37: Japanese planes sink the
US gunboat Panay
9/8/43: Italy surrenders
Autumn 1938: US and Germany recall ambassadors
10/10/38: Germany occupies the Sudentenland
11/28/43: Teheran conference
3/16/39: Germany occupies Bohemia and Morovia
6/6/44: D-Day
1940: Germany invades Norway, Denmark, France, Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg
6/13/44: First V-1 rocket launched
5/10/40: Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain
2/4/45: Yalta conference
9/7/40: The London Blitz begins
4/12/45: FDR dies in office
4/28/45: Mussolini executed
1942: Japan invades the Dutch east Indies, Burma, Singapore, Java, and Rangoon
4/30/45: Hitler commits suicide
DePaul TPS 2013