HITLER’S RULE IN GERMANY

1938

MAR:
1933 1935 Anschluss with
FEB: Reichstag Fire – Austria
Hitler given emergency Hitler passed the 1941
1945
powers to deal with Nuremberg SEP: Munich
Communists law’s, which Agreement – JUN-DEC :
Hitler broke May: Nazi Germany falls and
excluded the Sudetenland
the Nazi- surrenders to the Allies – END of
MAR: Enabling Act – Hitler Jews from comes under
Soviet Pact WWII in Europe
gains even more power German society German
control by invading
the USSR The USA and the USSR, losing their
JUL: All other political Conscription was through
(Operation common enemy, began to turn on
parties are banned – re-introduced Appeasement
Barbarossa) each other…
Germany became a one-
party state

1934
1936 1939
JUN: Night of the Long Knives – German troops enter 1942
Hitler had many leaders of the SA the Rhineland Wannsee
MAR: German Conference –
(his own private army) arrested
invasion of Hitler decides to
and executed
Czechoslovakia kill all Jews
AUG: German President died, and
AUG: Nazi-Soviet
Hitler took over the role of
Pact
President in addition to being
Chancellor. He was now known as
SEP: German
Fuhrer (supreme leader) of
invasion of Poland ;
Germany
Britain and France
declare war on
Germany, starting
WWII

©HUMANITIES 101-AAO