November 8 - Franklin Roosevelt elected President of the United States.
1933
January 30 - Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
March 12 - First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin.
March 23 - Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power.
In June - Nazis open Dachau concentration camp.
1934
August 19 - Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
1936
February 10 - The German Gestapo is placed above the law.
1938
September 30 - British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich.
October 15 - German troops occupy the Sudetenland; Czech government resigns.
November 9/10 - Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass.
1939
January 30, 1939 - Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.
September 5, 1939 - United States proclaims its neutrality; German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland.
September 29, 1939 - Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland.
In October - Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany.
1940
April 9, 1940 - Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.
May 10, 1940 - Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.
June 14, 1940 - Germans enter Paris.
September 15, 1940 - Massive German air raids on London, Southampton, Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool and Manchester.
November 5, 1940 - Roosevelt re-elected as U.S. president.
December 29/30 - Massive German air raid on London.
1941
May 10/11 - Heavy German bombing of London; British bomb Hamburg.
June 14, 1941 - United States freezes German and Italian assets in America.
August 14, 1941 - Roosevelt and Churchill announce the Atlantic Charter.
September 1, 1941 - Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars.
December 7, 1941 - Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
December 8, 1941 - United States and Britain declare war on Japan.
December 11, 1941 - Hitler declares war on the United States.
January 1, 1942 - Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations.
In April - Japanese-Americans sent to relocation centers.
In June - Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel and his family are imprisoned there. About Wiesel.
August 12, 1942 - Stalin and Churchill meet in Moscow.
August 17, 1942 - First all-American air attack in Europe.
December 2, 1942 - Professor Enrico Fermi sets up an atomic reactor in Chicago.
1943
January 14-24 - Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt. During the conference, Roosevelt announces the war can end only with "unconditional German surrender."
February 2, 1943 - Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
June 11, 1943 - Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland.
July 24, 1943 - British bombing raid on Hamburg.
October 1, 1943 - Allies enter Naples, Italy.
November 18, 1943 - Large British air raid on Berlin.
November 28, 1943 - Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Teheran.
1944
March 18, 1944 - British drop 3000 tons of bombs during an air raid on Hamburg, Germany.
June 6, 1944 - D-Day landings on the northern coast of France.
June 13, 1944 - First German V-1 rocket attack on Britain.
July 20, 1944 - Assassination attempt by German Army officers against Hitler fails.
July 24, 1944 - Soviet troops liberate first concentration camp at Majdanek.
August 4, 1944 - Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland.
August 15, 1944 - Operation Dragoon begins (the Allied invasion of Southern France)
August 25, 1944 - Liberation of Paris.
October 21, 1944 - Massive German surrender at Aachen, Germany.
December 16-27 - Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes.
December 27, 1944 - Soviet troops besiege Budapest.
December 28, 1944 - Corrie Ten Boon is released due to a clerical error from Ravensbrück concentration camp.
1945
January 16, 1945 - U.S. 1st and 3rd Armies link up after a month long separation during the Battle of the Bulge.
January 17 - 26, 1945 - Soviet troops capture Warsaw, Poland; liberate Auschwitz.
February 4-11 - Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Yalta.
February 13/14 - Dresden is destroyed by a firestorm after Allied bombing raids.
April 12, 1945 - Allies liberate Buchenwald and Belsen concentration camps; President Roosevelt dies. Harry Truman becomes President.
April 16, 1945 - Soviet troops begin their final attack on Berlin; Americans enter Nuremberg.
April 18, 1945 - German forces in the Ruhr surrender.
April 21, 1945 - Soviets reach Berlin.
April 28, 1945 - Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans
April 29, 1945 - U.S. 7th Army liberates Dachau.
April 30, 1945 - Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
May 2, 1945 - German troops in Italy surrender.
May 7, 1945 - Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies.
May 8, 1945 - V-E (Victory in Europe) Day.
June 5, 1945 - Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government.
June 26, 1945 - United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
July 1, 1945 - American, British, and French troops move into Berlin.
July 16, 1945 - First U.S. atomic bomb test; Potsdam Conference begins.
July 26, 1945 - Atlee succeeds Churchill as British Prime Minister.
August 6, 1945 - First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan.
August 9, 1945 - Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan.
August 14, 1945 - Japanese agree to unconditional surrender.
August 29, 1945 - General Douglas MacArthur is made Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers over Occupied Japan.
September 2, 1945 - Japanese sign the surrender agreement; V-J (Victory over Japan) Day.
October 24, 1945 - United Nations is born.
November 20, 1945 - Nuremberg war crimes trials begin.
March 23 - Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power.
In June - Nazis open Dachau concentration camp.
1934
August 19 - Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
1936
February 10 - The German Gestapo is placed above the law.
1938
September 30 - British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich.
October 15 - German troops occupy the Sudetenland; Czech government resigns.
November 9/10 - Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass.
1939
January 30, 1939 - Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.
September 5, 1939 - United States proclaims its neutrality; German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland.
September 29, 1939 - Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland.
In October - Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany.
1940
April 9, 1940 - Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.
May 10, 1940 - Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.
June 14, 1940 - Germans enter Paris.
September 15, 1940 - Massive German air raids on London, Southampton, Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool and Manchester.
November 5, 1940 - Roosevelt re-elected as U.S. president.
December 29/30 - Massive German air raid on London.
1941
May 10/11 - Heavy German bombing of London; British bomb Hamburg.
June 14, 1941 - United States freezes German and Italian assets in America.
August 14, 1941 - Roosevelt and Churchill announce the Atlantic Charter.
September 1, 1941 - Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars.
December 7, 1941 - Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
December 8, 1941 - United States and Britain declare war on Japan.
December 11, 1941 - Hitler declares war on the United States.
January 1, 1942 - Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations.
In April - Japanese-Americans sent to relocation centers.
In June - Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel and his family are imprisoned there. About Wiesel.
August 12, 1942 - Stalin and Churchill meet in Moscow.
August 17, 1942 - First all-American air attack in Europe.
December 2, 1942 - Professor Enrico Fermi sets up an atomic reactor in Chicago.
1943
January 14-24 - Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt. During the conference, Roosevelt announces the war can end only with "unconditional German surrender."
February 2, 1943 - Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
June 11, 1943 - Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland.
July 24, 1943 - British bombing raid on Hamburg.
October 1, 1943 - Allies enter Naples, Italy.
November 18, 1943 - Large British air raid on Berlin.
November 28, 1943 - Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Teheran.
1944
March 18, 1944 - British drop 3000 tons of bombs during an air raid on Hamburg, Germany.
June 6, 1944 - D-Day landings on the northern coast of France.
June 13, 1944 - First German V-1 rocket attack on Britain.
July 20, 1944 - Assassination attempt by German Army officers against Hitler fails.
July 24, 1944 - Soviet troops liberate first concentration camp at Majdanek.
August 4, 1944 - Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland.
August 15, 1944 - Operation Dragoon begins (the Allied invasion of Southern France)
August 25, 1944 - Liberation of Paris.
October 21, 1944 - Massive German surrender at Aachen, Germany.
December 16-27 - Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes.
December 27, 1944 - Soviet troops besiege Budapest.
December 28, 1944 - Corrie Ten Boon is released due to a clerical error from Ravensbrück concentration camp.
1945
January 16, 1945 - U.S. 1st and 3rd Armies link up after a month long separation during the Battle of the Bulge.
January 17 - 26, 1945 - Soviet troops capture Warsaw, Poland; liberate Auschwitz.
February 4-11 - Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Yalta.
February 13/14 - Dresden is destroyed by a firestorm after Allied bombing raids.
April 12, 1945 - Allies liberate Buchenwald and Belsen concentration camps; President Roosevelt dies. Harry Truman becomes President.
April 16, 1945 - Soviet troops begin their final attack on Berlin; Americans enter Nuremberg.
April 18, 1945 - German forces in the Ruhr surrender.
April 21, 1945 - Soviets reach Berlin.
April 28, 1945 - Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans
April 29, 1945 - U.S. 7th Army liberates Dachau.
April 30, 1945 - Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
May 2, 1945 - German troops in Italy surrender.
May 7, 1945 - Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies.
May 8, 1945 - V-E (Victory in Europe) Day.
June 5, 1945 - Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government.
June 26, 1945 - United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
July 1, 1945 - American, British, and French troops move into Berlin.
July 16, 1945 - First U.S. atomic bomb test; Potsdam Conference begins.
July 26, 1945 - Atlee succeeds Churchill as British Prime Minister.
August 6, 1945 - First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan.
August 9, 1945 - Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan.
August 14, 1945 - Japanese agree to unconditional surrender.
August 29, 1945 - General Douglas MacArthur is made Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers over Occupied Japan.
September 2, 1945 - Japanese sign the surrender agreement; V-J (Victory over Japan) Day.
October 24, 1945 - United Nations is born.
November 20, 1945 - Nuremberg war crimes trials begin.
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