WW2 Dates

• Germany forced to sign Treaty of Versailles


  1919
• Hitler joins the National Socialist party
• Hitler blamed Weimar Republic policies, Treaty of Versailles, and the Jews for the economic situation
• Beer Hall putsch (coup) in Munich failed. Hitler imprisoned


  Nov 1923
• Hitler invited to serve as Chancellor of Germany


  1933
• September election results:
• Enabling Act passed, allowing the Reich government to issue laws without the consent of Germany's parliament


  March 23, 1934
• German communists, socialists, and other anti-Nazis sent to concentration camps
• Japanese PM opposed to aggressive foreign policy assassinated

  1930
• Spanish Civil War starts

  1936
• Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia)


  1935
• Right-wing National Socialist party birthed


  1918 - 23
• Germany invades the rest of Czechoslovakia

  1939
• Japan invades China

  1937
• Germany was forced to establish a democratic republic - the 'Weimar Republic'
• Nazi party has its own army - Stormtroopers
• Stock market crash and Great Depression

  1929
• Nazis won 33% in November election but did not have a majority


  1932
• SDP proposed tax increases on the rich, and coalition government collapsed


  1930
• Night of the Long Knives - Hitler used the SS to murder political opponents


  June 30, 1934
• Reichstag building destroyed by fire


  February 27, 1934
• Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) - a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party


  1938
• Anglo-German Naval Agreement allows Germany a navy 35% the size of Britain's Royal Navy


  1935
• Japan withdraws from the League of Nations

  1933
• 20,000 German troops occupy the Rhineland


  March 1936
• Germany asked for a cease-fire sensing they would lose the 'Great War'


  1918
• Japanese military starts invasion of Manchuria


  1931
• Terms of Treaty of Versailles:
• Nazi government spreads fear of communism and reduces power of coalition partners


  1934
• Nazis won 37.3% in July election but Reichstag passed a vote of no confidence


  1932
• Nuremberg Laws passed - Jews lost German citizenship and political rights


  1935
• Britain and France declare war on Germany


  Sept 3, 1939
• Munich conference and agreement - Germany allowed to occupy the Sudetenland


  Sept 1938
• Government unable to deal with high unemployment and homelessness
• Communist party banned
• Nazi party grows from 50 to 50,000 members
• Stalin begins purges of opponents
• Germany announces it has an airforce and introduces conscription


  1935
• Germany invades and annexes Austria

  1938
• 'Periclean period' - Germany does well economically with huge growth in German arts and sciences (Weimar Culture) thus little growth in Nazi popularity


  Mid 1920's