WWII TIMELINE- C/G by Jordyn Meyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0 en-us 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC 2025-10-14 15:40:07 UTC hello@padlet.com 1889 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245808 Adolf Hitler is born in Austria.]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245808 1918 https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245810 Hitler blamed the Jews for the country's defeat.

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245810 1919 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245811 All of the blame for WWI was placed on the Germans in the Treaty of Versailles. ]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245811 1933-1939 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245812 From 1933 to 1939, hundreds of thousands of Jews who were able to leave Germany did, while those who remained lived in a constant state of uncertainty and fear.--

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245812 January 20, 1933 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245814 Hitler was named chancellor of Germany.

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245814 1933 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245815 In 1933, Jews in Germany numbered around 525,000, or only 1 percent of the total German population.

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245815 1935 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245817 Nuremberg Laws of 1935, anyone with three or four Jewish grandparents was considered a Jew, while those with two Jewish grandparents were designated Mischlinge (half-breeds).

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245817 November, 1938 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245818 Tyler, Chris D,  and Alex O.



November 1938, when German synagogues were burned and windows in Jewish shops were smashed. Some 100 Jews were killed and thousands more arrested.

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245818 September of 1939 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245819 The German army occupied the western half of Poland.

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245819 Fall of 1939 https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245820 In the fall of 1939, Nazi officials selected around 70,000 Germans institutionalized for mental illness or disabilities to be gassed to death in the so-called euthanasia program.

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245820 June of 1941 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245821

 June 1941, experiments with mass killing methods had been ongoing at the concentration camp of Auschwitz.


]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245821 July 31, 1941 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245823 --one of Hitler's top commanders wrote about the need for a "final solution" to "the Jewish question."

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245823 August of 1941 ebartlett25 https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245824 Hitler put an end to the program in August 1941

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245824 September of 1941 ebartlett25 https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245825 every person designated as a Jew in German-held territory was marked with a yellow star.

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245825 Late 1941 https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245826 Beginning in late 1941, the Germans began transporting huge numbers of people from the ghettos in Poland to the concentration camps. They started with those people viewed as the least useful: the sick, the old, the weak and the very young.

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245826 1942-1945 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245827 From 1942 to 1945, Jews were deported to the camps from all over Europe.

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245827 February 19, 1942 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245828 The beginning of Japanese-American Internment in the US. ]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245828 March 17, 1942 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245829 The first mass gassings began at the camp of Belzec on March 17, 1942. --

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245829 Summer - Fall of 1942 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245831 The heaviest deportations took place during the summer and fall of 1942, when more than 300,000 people were deported from the Warsaw Ghetto alone.

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245831 Summer of 1944 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245832 During the summer of 1944, even as Germany was beginning to lose the war, a large part of Hungary’s Jewish population was deported to Auschwitz. As many as 12,000 Jews were killed every day.

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245832 By 1945 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245833 In 1945, the Allies began the Nuremberg Trials, an effort to punish the villains of the Holocaust. The trials brought Nazi atrocities to horrifying light. Increasingly, there was pressure on the Allied powers to create a homeland for Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245833 Spring of 1945 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245835 German leadership was suffering from internal conflict. Several Nazi leaders were trying to distance themselves from Hitler and take power.

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245835 April 29-30, 1945 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245836 In his last will, dictated in a German bunker on April 29, Hitler blamed the war on “international Jewry and its helpers.”


The following day, he committed suicide.


]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245836 May 8, 1945 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245837 Germany’s formal surrender in World War II came barely a week later, on May 8, 1945.

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245837 July 26, 1945 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245838 Allies issued the Potsdam Declaration: surrender or face utter destruction, which Japan ignored.]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245838 August 6, 1945 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245839 The bombing of Hiroshima, Japan by the Allied Nations. ]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245839 August 9, 1945 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245840 The Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, which led to Japan's surrender. ]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245840 September 2, 1945 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245841 Japan surrenders, officially ending WWII on the Pacific front. ]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245841 1945 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245843 In 1945, the Allies began the Nuremberg Trials, an effort to punish the villains of the Holocaust. The trials brought Nazi atrocities to horrifying light. Increasingly, there was pressure on the Allied powers to create a homeland for Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245843 Late 1940s jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245845 . In many cases they had lost their families and been denounced by their non-Jewish neighbors. As a result, the late 1940s saw a great number of refugees and other displaced populations moving across Europe.



]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245845 1948 stuohy26 https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245846 Increasingly, there was pressure on the Allied powers to create a homeland for Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. This eventually led to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.

]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245846 1953 jmeyenberg https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245847 In 1953, the German government began to make payments to individual Jews and to the Jewish people. This was a way of acknowledging responsibility for the crimes committed in their name.


]]> 2024-04-24 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2968245847 1934 https://padlet.com/jmeyenberg/occpugzqaoaahd0/wish/2971471967 After President Paul von Hindenburg’s death in 1934, Hitler anointed himself as “Fuhrer,” becoming Germany’s supreme ruler.

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