Events in WWII

By nikaiya.lawson

  • All German youths to be educated according to the philosophies of Nationalist Socialism from the age of 10 and higher

  • Germany invades Poland war begins

  • Britain and France go to war with Germany

  • Hitler Youth became the largest youth organization in the world with over 7.3 million strong within its ranks

  • Nazis kill 10,000 Poles and Jews in Mniszek, Poland

  • Gestapo murders 6,000 Poles and Jews in Fordon, Poland

  • Hitler promises the extermination of the Jews if they cause another world war

  • Hitler orders the first euthanasia on a German "unworthy of life" to eliminate all physical and mentally handicapped citizens

  • Assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in Munich fails

  • Germany conquered Holland, Belgium, France, Denmark, and Norway;

  • Germany started bombing Britain and sinking ships with submarines

  • Soviet Union was attacked by Germany

  • America joined the war after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor

  • More than 4 million Jews have been killed in German extermination camps

  • Allies were winning because of tanks, ships, and planes

  • The Jews of Warsaw stage an uprising

  • Allies crossed from Britain to liberate France; Allies invaded Germany

  • War in Europe was over

  • Allies drop atomic bomb on two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • WWII ended; troop freed prisoners from Nazi concentration camps 6million Jews were killed.

  • Britain and the USA carry out the last air raid on Berlin

  • USA liberates the Dachau concentration camp, where 30,000 prisoners are still alive