Events (Exam #2) Flashcards
Beer Hall Putsch
(1923) Munich
Hitler’s failed putsch, or coup d’etat
Hyperinflation in Germany
(1923) Futile attempt to pay off war debts from WWI
Great Depression
(Oct., 1929)
Jan. 30, 1933
Hitler becomes chancellor
Reichstag Fire
(Feb. 27, 1933)
Hitler declares himself Führer
(Aug. 1, 1934) Führer combines power of the president and chancellor
Invasion of Poland
(Sept. 1, 1939) Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland, causing WWII
Book burnings
(May, 1933) Authors include Einstein, Marx, and London
Exhibition of Degenerate Art
(July 1938) Munich
Purpose: make people dislike this type of art
Backfired because people just went to reminisce before the art pieces disappeared forever
boycott
(19 ) Occurred during first stage of Jewish persecution
Hitler ordered the boycott of Jewish businesses, but nobody listened
Kristallnacht
(Nov. 9, 1938) “Night of Broken Glass”
Operation Barbarossa
(June 22, 1941)
Babi Yar
(Sept. 29, 1941) Located in Ukraine near Kiev.
Wannsee Conference
(Jan. 20, 1942) Created the Final Solution
VE Day and VJ Day
VE (May 8, 1945)
VJ (Sept. 2, 1945)
Pearl Harbor
(Dec. 7, 1941) US forced into WWII
First meeting
(Aug. 1941) Newfoundland
Atlantic Charter -
Second meeting
(Dec. 1943) Tehran
Third meeting
(Oct. 1944) Moscow
Percentages Agreement, which Roosevelt dubbed “naughty doc”
Fourth meeting
(Feb. 1945) Yalta
Fifth meeting
(July 1945) Potsdam
the split of Germany
(1949) Federal Republic of Germany (west) and German Democratic Republic (east)
Berlin Wall begins construction
(1961)
Nov. 9, 1989
Fall of the Berlin Wall and end of the Cold War