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1933
- January 30th - Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
- February 27th - The Reichstag Fire
- March 12th - First Concentration Camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin
- March 23rd - Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power
- April 1st - Nazi Boycott of Jewish owned shops
- May 10th - Nazis burn books in Germany
- In June - Nazis open Dachau concentration camp
- July 14th - Nazi party declared only party in Germany
- October 14th - Germany leaves the League of Nations
1934
- June 30th - The Night of Long Knives
- July 25th - Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss.
- August 2nd - German President Hindenburg dies.
- August 19th - Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany.
1935
- March 16th - Hitler violates Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription.
- September 15th - German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws.
1936
- February 10th - The German Gestapo is placed above the Law.
- March 7th - German troops occupy the Rhineland.
- May 9th - Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia.
- July 18th - Civil War starts in Spain.
- August 1st - Olympic games begin in Berlin.
- October 1st - Franco declared head of Spanish State.
1937
- June 11th - Soviet leader Stalin begins a purge of Red Army Generals.
- November 5th - Hitler reveals War plans during Hossbach Conference.<
1938
- March 12/13th - Germany announces "Anschluss" (Union) with Austria.<
- August 12th - German military mobilises.
- September 30th - British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich.
- October 15th - German troops occupy the Sudetenland; Czech Government resigns.
- November 9/10th - Kristallnacht- The Night of Broken Glass.
1939
- January 30th - Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.
- March 15/16th - Nazis take Czechoslovakia.
- March 28th - Spanish Civil War ends.
- May 22nd - Nazis sign "Pact of Steel" with Italy.
- August 23rd - Nazis and Soviets sign Pact.
- August 25th - Britain and Poland sign a mutual Assistance Treaty.
- August 31st - British Fleet mobilises; Civilian evacuations begin from London.
- September 1st - Nazis invade Poland.
- September3rd - Britain, France, Austria and New Zealand declare War on Germany.
- September 4th - British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy.
- September 5th - United States proclaims neutrality; German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland.
- September 10th - Canada declares War on Germany; Battle of the Atlantic begins.<
- September 17th - Soviets invade Poland.
- September 27th - Warsaw surrenders to Nazis; Reinhard Heydrich becomes leader of the new Reich Main Security office (RSHA).
- September 29th - Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland.
- In October - Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany.
- November 8th - Assassination attempt on Hitler fails.
- November 30th - Soviets attack Finland.
- December 14th - Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations.
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