Week 2 Lecture

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)