Unit 2 Chronology Quiz

1918

Weimar Republic established in Germany

1919

World War I officially ends with Treaty of Versailles

1925

End of Hitler’s imprisonment & publication of Mein Kampf

1929

Great Depression begins

1930

Weimar President Paul von Hindenburg invokes Article 48 to rule by decree

1932

Hitler loses presidential election

Jan 1933

Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

Mar 1933

Enabling Act establishes dictatorship in Germany; Dachau Concentration Camp opens

1935

Reich Citizenship Law defines defined Jews as a race identified by blood and genealogy

Mar 1938

Germany invades and annexes Austria

Nov 1938

Kristallnacht Attacks

Aug 1939

Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) signed

Sept 1939

Germany invades Poland

May 1940

Germany invades Netherlands

June 1940

First prisoners arrive at Auschwitz

June 1941 Germany invades Soviet Union

Dec 1941

US enters World War II after bombing at Pearl Harbor

1942

Wannsee Conference where “Final Solution” discussed

1943

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

May 1945

German forces surrender