Anne Frank in the World, 1929 - 1945 Teacher Workbook

Germany Timeline

1871	Germany becomes one nation.
April 20, 1889	Adolf Hitler is born in Austria.
Aug 1, 1914	Germany declares war on Russia.
August 3, 1914	Germany declares war on France.
August 4, 1914	Germany invades Belgium.
1914-1920	Hitler is in the German army and attains the rank of corporal.
Nov 11, 1918	Germany agrees to armistice. World War I ends.
Jan 19, 1919	First democratic election.
June 23, 1919	Germany accepts Versailles Treaty.
April 1, 1920	Hitler joins National Socialist German Workers Party.
Jan 30, 1933	Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany.
Feb 27, 1933	Reichstag fire in Berlin. Nazis unleash terror to ensure election results.
Mar, 1933	Fifty small concentration camps for political prisoners are established in the vicinity of Berlin.
March 23, 1933	First true political concentration camp opens at Dachau, near Munich.
March 27, 1933	Enabling Act - suspending civil liberties - is passed by Nazi dominated Reichstag.
April 1, 1933	Goebbels declares official boycott of Jewish shopkeepers, doctors, and lawyers.
April 11, 1933	Jewish civil servants and teachers are fired.
April 24, 1933	Gestapo is established.
May 10, 1933	Books by Jews and Nazi opponents are publicly burned.
Spring, 1933	Universities and the arts are 'cleansed' of Jewish influence.
Oct 19, 1933	Germany leaves the League of Nations.
June 30, 1934	'Night of the Long Knives' - Nazis purge leadership of Storm troops and opponents of Nazism.
Aug 2, 1934	Hitler is named president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces following the death of von Hindenburg.
March 16, 1935	Germany renews conscription in violation of Versailles treaty.
Sep 15, 1935	Nuremberg Laws passed declaring Jews are not German citizens.
Nov 15, 1935	Germany defines Jews: anyone with three Jewish grandparents: someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew.
Feb 4, 1936	David Frankfurter, young Jewish student, assassinates Wilhelm Gustloff, leader of the Nazi party, in Switzerland.
Mar 7, 1936	Germans march into the Rhineland which had been demilitarized according to the Versailles Treaty.
June 17, 1936	Himmler is appointed chief of German police.
Oct 25, 1936	Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis.
July 16, 1937	Buchenwald Concentration camp opens.
March 13, 1938	Germany annexes Austria.
Nov 9, 1938	Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass); nationwide destruction of synagogues and Jewish owned shops.
March 15, 1939	Germany occupies Czechoslovakia.
Aug 23, 1939	Nonaggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union; Poland is divided between them.
Sep 1, 1939	World War II begins when Germany invades Poland.
April 9, 1940	Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
May 10, 1940	Germany invades Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.
May 20, 1940	Concentration camp is established at Auschwitz.
June 22, 1940	France surrenders to Nazis.
Aug 8, 1940	Battle of Britain begins.
Sep 12, 1940	Germany invades Romania.
Sep 27, 1940	Germany, Italy, and Japan form Axis pact.
Apr, 1940-41	Over 100,000 mentally ill and 'non-productive' elderly are exterminated in Germany.
Apr 6, 1941	Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece.
June 22, 1941	Germany invades Soviet Union.
July 31, 1941	Rhinhard Heydrich is appointed by Goering to carry out 'Final Solution,' the extermination of all the Jews in Europe.
Sep 28, 29, 1941	Massacre of Jews at Babi Yar - ravine outside Kiev: 34,000 murdered.
Oct 23, 1941	Murder of 19,000 Jews in Odessa.
Oct, 1941	Birkenau camp is established: site of mass extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Russians, and others.
Dec 8, 1941	Chelmno extermination camp opens; 340,000 Jews, 20,000 Poles and Czechs are killed there by April 1943.
Dec 11, 1941	Germany and Italy declare war on the United States.
Jan 29, 1942	Wannsee Conference: Heydrich reveals official plan to exterminate all the Jews in Europe.
March 1, 1942	Extermination by gas begins in Sobibor extermination camp; by October, 1943, 250,000 killed.
March 17, 1942	Extermination begins in Belzec extermination camp; by the end of 1942, 600,000 killed.
March 1942	Deportations to Auschwitz extermination camp begins.
Jun 1, 1942	Treblinka extermination camp begins operation; by August 1943, 700,000 killed.
Feb 2, 1943	German advance in Russia is stopped at Stalingrad.
Mar 19, 1944	Germany occupies Hungary.
July 20, 1944	Group of German officers attempts to assassinate Hitler.
Nov 24, 1944	Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz crematoria in attempt to destroy evidence of death camp.
Jan 17, 1945	Evacuation of Auschwitz; beginning of death march of camp inmates.
April 1945	Red Army enters Germany from the East; Allies enter from the West.
Apr 30, 1945	Hitler and Goebbels commit suicide.
May 7, 1945	Germany surrenders. World War II is over in Europe.
Nov 22, 1945	Nuremberg War Crimes Trials begin.