1921

July 29 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist "Nazi" Party.

April 17 Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis.

April 27 Greece surrenders to the Nazis.

June Nazi SS Einsatzgruppen begin mass murder.

July 31 Göring instructs Heydrich to prepare for the Final Solution.

September 1 The Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars.

September 3 The first experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz occurs.

September 19 The Nazis take Kiev.

September 29 The Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev.

December 11 Germany declares war on the United States.

January 20 Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" convenes.

June Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz.

July 22 Deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to camps begin; the Treblinka extermination camp opens.

January 30 Adolf Hitler becomes the chancellor of Germany.

March 12 The First concentration camp is opened at Oranienburg, outside Berlin.

March 23 The Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power.

April 1 Hitler orders the Nazi boycott of Jewish-owned shops.

May 10 Nazis burn books.

June The Nazis open the Dachau concentration camp.

July 14 The Nazi party is declared the only party in Germany.

August 19 Adolf Hitler becomes the führer of Germany.

September 15 The Nuremburg Laws take Jewish rights.

February 18 the Nazis arrest White Rose resistance leaders in Munich.

May 16 Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto ends.

June 11 Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland.

February 10 The German Gestapo is above the law.

March 7 German troops occupy the Rhineland.

June 6 D-Day landings.

July 24 Soviet troops liberate the first concentration camp at Majdanek.

August 4 Anne Frank and her family are arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland.

August 25 Liberation of Paris.

October 2 The Warsaw Uprising ends as the Polish Home Army surrenders to the Germans.

October 30 The chambers at Auschwitz are used for the last time.

December 17 Waffen SS murder 81 U.S. POWs at Malmedy.

March 12-13 Germany announces "Anschluss" (union) with Austria.

October 15 German troops occupy the Sudetenland; the Czech government resigns.

November 9-10 Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass).

January 26 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz.

April 12 The Allies liberate Buchenwald and Belsen concentration camps.

April 29 The U.S. 7th Army liberates Dachau.

April 30 Adolf Hitler commits suicide.

May 7 Germany signs an unconditional surrender with the Allies

May 8 V-E (Victory in Europe) Day.

August 6 Hiroshima, Japan, is the target of the first atomic bomb.

August 9 Nagasaki, Japan, is the target of the second atomic bomb.

September 2 Japanese sign the surrender agreement;  V-J (Victory over Japan) Day.

October 24 The United Nations is officially born.

March 15-16 The Nazis take Czechoslovakia.

September 27 Poland surrenders to the Nazis.

October The Nazis begin euthanizing on the sick and disabled in Germany.

April 9 The Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.

May 15 Holland surrenders to the Nazis.

May 28 Belgium surrenders to the Nazis.

June 10 Norway surrenders to the Nazis.

June 14 Germans enter Paris.

July 10 The Battle of Britain begins.

October 7 German troops enter Romania.