World War Ii Timeline (Half)
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1933
Jan 30 - Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
March 12 - First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin.
1935
Sept 15 - German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws.
1936
March 7 - German troops occupy the Rhineland.
July 18 - Civil war erupts in Spain.
1938
March 12/13 - Germany announces 'Anschluss' (union) with Austria.
Sept 30 - British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich.
Oct 15 - German troops occupy the Sudetenland ; Czech government resigns.
Nov 9/10 - Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass.
1939
March 15/16 - Nazis take Czechoslovakia.
Aug 23, 1939 - Nazis and Soviets sign Pact.
Sept 1, 1939 - Nazis invade Poland.
Sept 4, 1939 - British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy.
1940
April 9, 1940 - Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.
May 10, 1940 - Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.
May 26, 1940 - Evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk begins.
July 10, 1940 - Battle of Britain begins.
Aug 15, 1940 - Air battles and daylight raids over Britain.
Nov 5, 1940 - Roosevelt re-elected as U.S. president.
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