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1933

• January 30^th -Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
• February 27^th - The Reichstag Fire.
• March 12^th - First Concentration Camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin.
• March 23^rd - Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power.
• April 1^st - Nazi Boycott of Jewish owned shops.
• May 10^th - Nazis burn books in Germany.
• In June - Nazis open Dachau concentration camp.<
• July 14^th - Nazi party declared only party in Germany.
• October 14^th - Germany quits the League of Nations.

1934

• June 30^th - The Night of Long Knives
• July 25^th - Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss.
• August 2^nd - German President Hindenburg dies.
• August 19^th - Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany.

1935

• March 16^th - Hitler violates Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription.
• September 15^th - German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws.

1936

• February 10^th - The German Gestapo is placed above the Law.
• March 7^th - German troops occupy the Rhineland.
• May 9^th - Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia.
• July 18^th - Civil War starts in Spain.
• August 1^st - Olympic games begin in Berlin.
• October 1^st - Franco declared head of Spanish State.

1937

• June 11^th - Soviet leader Stalin begins a purge of Red Army Generals.
• November 5^th - Hitler reveals War plans during Hossbach Conference.<

1938

• March 12/13^th - Germany announces "Anschluss" (Union) with Austria.<
• August 12^th - German military mobilises.
• September 30^th - British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich.
• October 15^th - German troops occupy the Sudetenland; Czech Government resigns.
• November 9/10^th - Kristallnacht- The Night of Broken Glass.

1939

• January 30^th - Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.
• March 15/16^th - Nazis take Czechoslovakia.
• March 28^th - Spanish Civil War ends.
• May 22^nd - Nazis sign "Pact of Steel" with Italy.
• August 23^rd - Nazis and Soviets sign Pact.
• August 25^th - Britain and Poland sign a mutual Assistance Treaty.
• August 31^st - British Fleet mobilises; Civilian evacuations begin from London.
• September 1^st - Nazis invade Poland.
• September3^rd - Britain, France, Austria and New Zealand declare War on Germany.
• September 4^th - British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy.
• September 5^th - United States proclaims neutrality; German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland.
• September 10^th - Canada declares War on Germany; Battle of the Atlantic begins.<
• September 17^th - Soviets invade Poland.
• September 27^th - Warsaw surrenders to Nazis; Reinhard Heydrich becomes leader of the new Reich Main Security office (RSHA).
• September 29^th - Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland.
• In October - Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany.
• November 8^th - Assassination attempt on Hitler fails.
• November 30^th - Soviets attack Finland.
• December 14^th - Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations.

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