1918
November 11 - World War I ends with German defeat.
1919April 28 - League of Nations founded.
Time Line
June 28 - Signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
1921
July 29 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party.
1923
November 8/9 - Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch.
1925
July 18 - Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" published.
1926
September 8 - Germany admitted to League of Nations.
1929
October 29 - Stock Market on Wall Street crashes.
1930
September 14 - Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany.
1932
November 8 - Franklin Roosevelt elected President of the United States.
1933January 30 - Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
February 27 - The German Reichstag burns.
March 12 - First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin.
March 23 - Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power.
April 1 - Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops.
May 10 - Nazis burn books in Germany.
In June - Nazis open Dachau concentration camp.
July 14 - Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party.
October 14 - Germany quits the League of Nations.
1934
June 30 - The Nazi "Night of the Long Knives."
July 25 - Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss.
August 2 - German President Hindenburg dies.
August 19 - Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
1935
March 16 - Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription.
September 15 - German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws.
1936
February 10 - The German Gestapo is placed above the law.
March 7 - German troops occupy the Rhineland.
May 9 - Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia.
July 18 - Civil war erupts in Spain.
August 1 - Olympic games begin in Berlin.
October 1 - Franco declared head of Spanish State.
1937
June 11 - Soviet leader Josef Stalin begins a purge of Red Army generals.
November 5 - Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Conference.
1938
March 12/13 - Germany announces 'Anschluss' (union) with Austria.
August 12 - German military mobilizes.
September 30 - British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich.
October 15 - German troops occupy the Sudetenland; Czech government resigns.
November 9/10 - Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass.
January 30, 1939 - Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.
March 15/16 - Nazis take Czechoslovakia.
March 28, 1939 - Spanish Civil war ends.
May 22, 1939 - Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy.
August 23, 1939 - Nazis and Soviets sign Pact.
August 25, 1939 - Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty.
August 31, 1939 - British fleet mobilizes; Civilian evacuations begin from London.
September 1, 1939 - Nazis invade Poland.
September 3, 1939 - Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.
September 4, 1939 - British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy.
September 5, 1939 - United States proclaims its neutrality; German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland.
September 10, 1939 - Canada declares war on Germany; Battle of the Atlantic begins.
September 17, 1939 - Soviets invade Poland.
September 27, 1939 - Warsaw surrenders to Nazis; Reinhard Heydrich becomes the leader of new Reich Main Security Office (RSHA).
See also: The History Place - Biography of Reinhard Heydrich.
September 29, 1939 - Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland.
In October - Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany.
November 8, 1939 - Assassination attempt on Hitler fails.
November 30, 1939 - Soviets attack Finland.
December 14, 1939 - Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations.
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