Timeline

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//A time-line of World War II //
March 20, 1933: SS opens the [|**Dachau**] concentration camp outside of Munich ||   ||
 *  January 30, [|**1933**] :President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany

April 7, 1933: Law for the Reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service  ||   ||
 * ||  April 1, 1933: [|**Boycott**]  of Jewish-owned [[image:http://www.solpass.org/7ss/Images/Stalingrad-fighting-1942.jpg width="484" height="359" align="right"]] shops and businesses in Germany

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 * || July 14, 1933: Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases

March 16, [|**1935**] : Germany introduces military conscription
 * ||  September 15, 1935: [|**Nuremberg Race Laws**]

March 7, 1936: German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland August 1, 1936: Summer [|**Olympics**] begin in Berlin

March 11-13, 1938: Germany incorporates [|**Austria**] in the //Anschluss// (Union) November 9/10, 1938: //[|**Kristallnacht**]// (nationwide pogrom in Germany) May 13, 1939: The //[|**St. Louis**]// sails from Hamburg, Germany September 29, 1938: Munich Agreement

August 23, 1939: [|**Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement**] September 1, 1939: Germany [|**invades Poland**], starting [|**World War II**]   in Europe September 17, 1939: The Soviet Union occupies Poland from the east October 8, 1939: Germans establish [|**ghetto**] in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland

April 9, 1940: Germany invades  [|**Denmark**] [|**Norway**] May 10, 1940: Germany attacks [|**western Europe**] (France and the Low Countries) July 10, 1940: Battle of Britain begins

April 6, 1941: Germany invades [|**Yugoslavia**] and [|**Greece**] June 22, 1941: Germany [|**invades the Soviet Union**] July 6, 1941: //[|**Einsatzgruppen**]// (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding [|**Kovno**] August 3, 1941: Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen of Muenster denounces the “ [|**euthanasia**] ” killing program in a public sermon September 28-29, 1941: Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at [|**Babi Yar**], outside Kiev November 7, 1941: Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the [|**Minsk**] ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki (Tuchinka) November 30, 1941: Einsatzgruppen shoot 10,000 Jews from the [|**Riga**] ghetto in the Rumbula Forest December 6, 1941: Soviet winter counteroffensive December 7, 1941: [|**Japan**] bombs Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declares war the next day December 8, 1941: The first killing operations begin at [|**Chelmno**] in occupied Poland December 11, 1941: Nazi Germany declares war on the United States

January 16, 1942: Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from [|**Lodz**] to the Chelmno killing center January 20, 1942: [|**Wannsee Conference**] held near Berlin, Germany March 27, 1942: Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from [|**Drancy**], outside [|**Paris**] , to the east (primarily to [|**Auschwitz**] ) June 28, 1942: Germany launches a new offensive towards the city of Stalingrad July 15, 1942: Germans begin mass deportations of nearly 100,000 Jews from the occupied [|**Netherlands**] to the east (primarily to Auschwitz) July 22, 1942: Germans begin the mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews from the [|**Warsaw**] ghetto to the [|**Treblinka**] killing center September 12, 1942: Germans complete the mass deportation of about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka November 23, 1942: Soviet troops counterattack at Stalingrad, trapping the German Sixth Army in the city

April 19, 1943: [|**Warsaw ghetto uprising**] begins July 5, 1943: Battle of Kursk October 1, 1943: Rescue of Jews in [|**Denmark**] November 6, 1943: Soviet troops liberate Kiev

March 19, 1944: Germans forces occupy [|**Hungary**] May 15, 1944: Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary June 6, 1944: [|**D-Day**] : Allied forces invade Normandy, France June 22, 1944: The Soviets launch an offensive in eastern Belorussia (Belarus) July 25, 1944: Anglo-American forces break out of Normandy August 1, 1944: Warsaw Polish uprising begins August 15, 1944: Allied forces land in southern France August 25, 1944: Liberation of Paris December 16, 1944: [|**Battle of the Bulge**] January 12, 1945: Soviet winter offensive January 18, 1945: [|**Death march**] of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland January 25, 1945: Death march of nearly 50,000 prisoners from the [|**Stutthof**] camp system in northern Poland January 27, 1945: Soviet troops liberate the [|**Auschwitz**] camp complex March 7, 1945: U.S. troops cross the Rhine River at [|**Remagen**] April 16, 1945: The Soviets launch their final offensive, encircling Berlin April 29, 1945: American forces [|**liberate**] the [|**Dachau**] concentration camp April 30, 1945: Adolf Hitler commits suicide May 7, 1945: Germany surrenders to the western Allies May 9, 1945: Germany surrenders to the Soviet ||