1931 Reichs President Hindenburg http://cla.calpoly.edu/~lcall/outline.weeksix.html

1933 Hitler is elected Coalition Chancellor. Appears with President Hindenburg http://cla.calpoly.edu/~lcall/outline.weeksix.html

Brown House in Munich, 1934. http://www.ingenious.org.uk/See/?s=S2&target=ctx&DCID=10250546

1934 Hindenburg dies. Hitler is appointed Fuhrer and Chancellor and Commander in Chief http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/holocaust.htm

1934 Hitler propaganda http://www.dhm.de/sammlungen/bildarchiv/IV/schostal/deutschland.html

1935 Pogram-Nuremberg Laws removed Citizenship of Jews http://mrjacksonshistory.wordpress.com/the-holocaust/

1935 Pogram-Nuremberg Laws removed Citizenship of Jews http://www.anthonyflood.com/murrayaffirmativeaction.htm

1935 Berlin http://www.dhm.de/sammlungen/bildarchiv/IV/schostal/deutschland.html

1936 Hitler illegally returned troops to the Rhineland http://library.umkc.edu/spec-col/ww2/1939/interrupt.htm

1936 Olympic Games http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/olympics1936/olympics1936.php

1936 Hitler aligns with Mussolini http://www.willy-brandt.org/bwbs_biografie/Achse_Berlin-Rom_und_Antikominternpakt_B1246.html

1937 Prisoners arriving at Buchenwald http://www.pbs.org/nova/holocaust/timeprint.html

1937 Germans bomb the Basque city Guernica http://www.century-of-flight.freeola.com/Aviation%20history/WW2/Spanish%20Civil%20War.htm

Picasso, Guernica (detail) http://www.english.uiuc.edu/Maps/scw/scw.htm

1938 Goebbels organized destruction of Jewish businesses and synagogues http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/aachensyn.html

1938 Hitler's Anschluss, Expansion into Austria http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/ww2Timeline/Prelude10.html

1938 Reichstag http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/hitler/

1938 Hitler parades in Vienna http://www.fhw.gr/projects/cooperations/f_policy36_45/en/photo/230.html

1938 Neville Chamberlain, second from right, hands Czechoslovakia over http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/5452458/Unseen-photographs-reveal-the-private-life-of-Adolf-Hitler.html?image=1

1939 As Hitler's troops march into the Sudetenland http://www.historyplace.com/specials/calendar/docs-pix/oct-sudet.htm

1939 Hitler enters Prague http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bandl.danby/Skelton1938_1941.html

1939 The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Stalin and Hitler agreed to partition Poland http://www.hot.ee/evlliit/okup_2.htm

1939 Hitler invades West Poland, Stalin into East Poland. Britain, France declare war http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/olympics/zcd075.htm

1939 HMS Courageous carrier ship on anti-submarine duty off Ireland was sunk by U-boats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Courageous_%2850%29

1939 HMS Royal Oak was sunk by U-boat with 833 aboard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Royal_Oak_(08)

1939 Russia attacked Finland http://www.historycentral.com/WW2/events/sovietfinland.html

1940 Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/wwii/jb_wwii_lendleas_1_e.html

1940 http://www.llgc.org.uk/illingworth/illingworth_s040.htm

1940 Hitler invaded Denmark and Norway http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/worldevents_01.html

1940 Germany attacks France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1940-Fall_Gelb.jpg

1940 France surrenders. Hitler has Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Mussolini joins in http://www.llgc.org.uk/illingworth/illingworth_s040.htm

1940 Mussolini ordered Marshallo Rodolfo Graziani to attack British forces in Egypt from Libya http://www.antraspasaulinis.net/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.575

Italian Invasion of British Somaliland in August 1940 http://www.flamesofwar.com/Article.asp?ArticleID=116

1940 The Battle of Britain http://images.google.com/url?q=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2000/battle_of_britain/default.stm

1940 The Battle of Britain - Bombers over London http://www.authentichistory.com/ww2/news/Battle_Of_Britain.html

1940 Italian bombers like this Fiat BR.20 attacked England in the Battle of Britain http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/falco_bob.htm

1940 Italian commandos attacked Greece http://www.mlahanas.de/Greece/History/GrecoItalianWar.html

1941 Germans raise the swastika over the Acropolis http://www.willy-brandt.org/bwbs_biografie/German_attack_on_Greece_and_Yugoslavia_B966.html

1941 Germany attacked Russia http://www.cronologia.it/storia/a1941p.htm

The endless steppes of Russia http://www.theeasternfront.co.uk/russiantopography.htm

1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and Germany declared war on the United States http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/ph-wvt.htm

1941 The German advance froze to a halt before Moscow in December http://www.2worldwar2.com/turning-points-in-world-war-2.htm

Russians dig anti-tank defenses as Germans approach Moscow http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_moscow06.jpg

Auschwitz crematorium ovens http://www.thirdreichruins.com/buchenwald.htm

1943 The first American combat against Rommel at Kasserine Pass http://warchronicle.com/16th_infantry/officialrecords_wwii/16_pics.htm

1942 At the Battle of El Alamein the Germans were defeated by Allied Forces led by British Gen. Bernard Montgomery http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/mont.htm

194 The Russians trapped the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad http://www.fsnielsen.com/txt/art/rusvest.htm

1942 American and British Landings on the African coast, Operation Torch http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~memoirs/torch.htm

1942 Landing in Algiera, part of Operation Torch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Torch-troops_hit_the_beaches.jpg

1943 Roosevelt and Churchill meet at Casablanca http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyfdr96.htm

1943 The British took Tripoli http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/tripoli.htm

1943 Polish Jews being deported to Treblinka http://geschichtsverein-koengen.de/Holocaust.htm

German troops are defeated at Stalingrad http://people.howstuffworks.com/russian-army-repels-hitlers-forces.htm

1943 German POWs after their surrender at Stalingrad http://www.katardat.org/marxuniv/2002-SUWW2/Images/images10-Stalingrad.html

1943 The Allies take Tunis http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/bizerte/bizerte-fm.htm

1943 The invasion of Sicily from Africa http://www.kwanah.com/txmilmus/36division/archives/443/44348.htm

1943 The invasion of mainland Italy http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/salerno/sal-prep.htm

1943 The invasion of Solerno http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~jmatthew/naples/herman1.html

A transport of Jews on their way to Auschwitz death camp http://www.zwoje-scrolls.com/shoah/towns.html

1944 The 900 day seige of Leningrad is relieved http://www.bwbs.de/UserFiles/Image/1941-1945/Leningrad.jpg

1945 Yalta Conference with the Big Three Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_Conference

1944 Allies enter Rome http://pro.corbis.com/search/Enlargement.aspx?CID=isg&mediauid=%7BF0DBA5F5-A49E-46E8-92BE-24AAA8C065AE%7D

1944 D-Day Landing June 6 http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/wc-unity.html

1944 After a V1 buzz bomb attack in London http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/museum/war_v1.htm

1944 Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam Aug 4 http://www.fembio.org/frauen-biographie/anne-frank.shtml

1944 Paris is liberated http://people.howstuffworks.com/the-battle-of-the-bulge-timeline6.htm

1944 Soviet troops reach Bucharest http://www.vor.ru/55/55_h/55_1944_eng.html

1944 Allies liberate Athens, Rommel commits suicide http://moscrop.sd41.bc.ca/images/socialswar/Html/1944.html

1944 The Battle of the Bulge http://8thwood.com/the_interview.htm

1945 The Dresden firestorm http://www.mimosa.co.cr/newbook/images.html

1945 Soviets reach Berlin http://sting3123sko.spaces.msn.com/PersonalSpace.aspx

1945 April Mussolini is hung by the Italians, Hitler commits suicide in his bunker http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blhitler30.htm

1945 Buchenwald camp with Eli Wiesel's picture marked http://www.swisseduc.ch/english/readinglist/wiesel_elie/author_about.html

1945 Colonel General Gustav JodI, Chief of Staff of the German Army signs the Unconditional Surreader agreement marking the final capitulation of the Nazi State http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~atpc/research/hps-ww2.html

1945 Eisenhower gives V for Victory http://www.cbc.ca/news/photogalleries/vecelebration/pages/02.html