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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
On this day in 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. -
France surrenders to Germany.
France Surrenders to Nazi Germany. During this period, Hitler built up his forces on Germany's western frontier. In April 1940, German forces invaded Denmark and Norway. In May 1940, Hitler's forces attacked France, conquering the Luxembourg, Netherlands and Belgium in the process. -
Auschwitz Liberated
Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, January 27, 1945. Prisoners re-enact liberation from Auschwitz main camp, Feb. 1945. -
attack on pearl harbor.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, but Japan and the United States had been edging toward war for decades. The United States was particularly unhappy with Japan’s increasingly belligerent attitude toward China. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 6, 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb "Little Boy" on Hiroshima in Japan. Three days later a second atomic bomb "Fat Man" was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht or Reichskristallnacht, also referred to as the Night of
Broken Glass, Reichspogromnacht or simply Pogromnacht, and Novemberpogrome, was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938. -
Germany invades Poland.
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland, and alternatively the Poland Campaign or Fall Weiss in Germany, was a joint invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, the Free City of Danzig, and a small Slovak contingent, that marked the beginning of World War II. -
•Franklin Roosevelt proposes Lend-Lease Program.
On this day in 1941, Franklin Roosevelt introduces the lend-lease program to Congress. The plan was intended to help Britain beat back Hitler’s advance while keeping America only indirectly involved in World War II. -
•D-Day.
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
