
Timeline to WWII (The Rise of Fascism in Germany)
- Nov. 11, 1918: Armistice with Germany
- June 28, 1919: Treaty of Versailles in signed The German army is decimated, the economy shattered, and war reparations are considerable
- July 29, 1921: Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party
- November 1923: Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch
- July 18, 1925: Mein Kampf published
- October 29, 1929: Stock Market crash
- September 1930: Nazi party is now the second largest political party in Germany
- January 30, 1933: Hitler becomes Chancellor
- February 27, 1933: German Reichstag burns
- March 12, 1933: First concentration camp opened
- March 23, 1933: Enabling Act allows Hitler to become a dictator
- May 10, 1933: Book burning
- July 14, 1933: Nazi Party is declared the only legal party
- August 19, 1934: Hitler becomes Führer
- September 15, 1935: Jews stripped of legal rights
- March 1938: Anschluss (union) with Austria
- September 30, 1938: Munich Agreement
- October 15, 1938: German troops occupy the Sudetenland
- November 9, 1938: Kristallnacht
- March 15, 1939: Nazis take Czechoslovakia
- September 1, 1939: Nazis invade Poland
- September 3, 1939: Britain and France declare war on Germany
The Rise of Hitler (BBC videos)
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