TIMELINE

The
Holocaust
1921 -Hitler became the leader
of the Nationalist Socialist
German Workers Party.
THE NAZI RISE TO -The Great Depression:
POWER Hitler’s Nationalist Socialist
German Workers Party
-Hitler became chancellor gained publicity and power.

1933
of the German government,
and the Nazi party gains
more influence.
-The Nazi party controlled
all aspects of daily life. THE NAZIS RISE TO
Hitler’s opponents were POWER
arrested or killed.

NAZI Targeted German Jews particulary

for violence and persecution.
-Invented the “Aryan” race, that was

IDEOLOGY
considered pure, which excluded
Jews, gypsies and descendants from
immigrants from Eastern Europe

NAZI
-Schools taught that Jews
were polluting their society
and culture.
-Banned Jews from many

IDEOLOGY
professions and prevented
them from marrying those
that were “pure” race.

1938
“The Night of Broken
Glass”; more than 30,000
Jews were sent to
NAZI IDEOLOGY concentration camps and
more than 90 were killed
injust one night.

1939 Germany invaded Poland,

conducting to the beginning
THE FINAL SOLUTION of World War II

Allied forces occupied

Germany and Poland in
1945 the camps were
1945
liberated, and the Nazis’ THE FINAL SOLUTION
horrific plans were
stopped.