Key Events

Question 1

Start of the Great Depression (1929)

Answer 1

The Global Economic crisis begins, fuelling the rise of extremist movements like the Nazis

Question 2

Hitler becomes Chancellor (1933)

Answer 2

Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany, marking the start of the Nazi rule

Question 3

Night Of The Long Knives (1934)

Answer 3

Hitler becomes Führer and purges rivals within the Nazi party and consolidates power

Question 4

Nuremberg Laws (1935)

Answer 4

These Laws institutionalise racial discrimination against Jews, leading to the groundwork of the Holocaust

Question 5

Kristallnacht (1938)

Answer 5

A violent, state sponsored program against Jews leads to widespread destruction and arrests

Question 6

WW2 (1939)

Answer 6

Germany invades Poland, triggering the start of WW2

Question 7

Start of The Final Solution (1941-42)

Answer 7

The Nazis began the systematic genocide of Jews, known as the Final Solution

Question 8

Defeat of Nazi Germany (1945)

Answer 8

Ending WW2 in Europe