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| Also visit Personal Timelines for Kennie Namba, Les and Eva Aigner, Armin Lehmann and Paul and Edith Lavender. |
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| World War I. Germany is defeated. |
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| Treaty of Versailles punishes Germany. |
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| Adolf Hitler becomes Reichs-Chancellor. Nazis barricade stores and Jewish employees are fired. The "Enabling Act" concentrates all political power in the Fuehrer. |
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| Nazis murder all political opponents in "Blood Purge." |
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| Nuremberg Laws (anti-Jewish racial laws) are enacted. Jews are no longer considered German citizens. Germany marches into Rhineland, which had been demilitarized by the Treaty of Versailles. |
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March 12: Anschluss (reunification of Germanic peoples) begins with takeover of Austria.
July 6:Thirty-two countries meet in Evian, France to discuss allowing Jewish refugees to enter their countries. Only a few countries agree to change their immigration laws.
Sept. 30: Munich Conference: Great Britain and France agree to German occupation of the Sudetenland.
Oct. 15: Germany occupies Sudetenland.
November 10: Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass," 90 Jews die, 30,000 Jewish men are arrested and taken to concentration camps.
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March 15: Germany occupies Czechoslovakia.
Sept. 1: Germany invades Poland and World War II begins.
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April 9: Germans occupy Denmark and southern Norway.
May 10: Germany invades Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg. Auschwitz camp is established.
June 22: France surrenders to Germany.
August 8: Battle of Britain begins.
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All Jews over age 6 are forced to wear yellow star.
April 6: Germany attacks Yugoslavia and Greece.
June 22: Hitler invades Russia.
Dec. 7: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. U.S. declares war.
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"Final Solution to the Jewish Question" is outlined by Nazis, with goal of mass murder of all Jewish people.
Feb. 19: Executive Order 9066 is signed, authorizing the War Department to establish "military areas" and to exclude Japanese-Americans.
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Jan. 31: Battle of Stalingrad ends.
April 19: Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazis begins.
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Mar. 19: Hungary is occupied by Nazis.
June 4: U.S. liberates Rome.
June 6: D-Day, Allied invasion at Normandy, France.
July 20: German officers try to assassinate Hitler.
Aug. 15: Allies land in south of France.
Aug. 23-25: Paris is liberated by Americans.
Oct. 7: Revolt by inmates at Auschwitz.
Oct. 18: All able-bodied German men are drafted into Volkssturm.
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Russians liberate Budapest ghetto.
Jan. 16: Hitler moves into bunker in Berlin.
April 21: Russians reach edge of Berlin.
April 29: U.S. troops liberate Dachau.
April 30: Hitler commits suicide.
May 1: Breakout from Berlin.
May 2: Berlin falls.
May 7: Germany surrenders.
May 8: VE Day.
August 6, 9: A-bombs are dropped on Japan.
August 14: Unconditional surrender of Japan.
Sept. 2: VJ Day. Japan signs formal surrender.
Nov. 20: Nuremburg Trials of Nazi war criminals begin
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