Nov 11 - World War One ends with German defeat. 
            
 April 28 - League of Nations founded. 
            
 June 28 - Signing of the Treaty of Versailles. 
            
 July 29 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist 'Nazi' Party. 
            
 July 18 - Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" published. 
            
 Sept 8 - Germany admitted to League of Nations. 
            
 Oct 29 - Stock Market on Wall Street crashes. 
            
 Sept 14 - Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany. 
            
 Nov 8 - Roosevelt elected President of the United States.
            
 Jan 30 - Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. 
            
 March 12 - First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin. 
            
 March 23 - Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power. 
            
 See also - The Rise of Hitler - from Unknown to Dictator of Germany 
            
 April 1 - Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops. 
            
 May 10 - Nazis burn books in Germany. 
            
 In June - Nazis open Dachau concentration camp.
            
 July 14 - Nazi party declared only party in Germany. 
            
 Oct 14 - Germany quits the League of Nations. 
            
 June 30 - The "Night of the Long Knives." 
            
 July 25 - Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss. 
            
 Aug 2 - German President Hindenburg dies. 
            
 Aug 19 - Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany. 
            
 March 16 - Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription. 
            
 Sept 15 - German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws. 
            
 Feb 10 - The German Gestapo is placed above the law. 
            
 March 7 - German troops occupy the Rhineland. 
            
 May 9 - Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia. 
            
 July 18 - Civil war erupts in Spain. 
            
 Aug 1 - Olympic games begin in Berlin. 
            
 Oct 1 - Franco declared head of Spanish State. 
            
 June 11 - Soviet leader Stalin begins a purge of Red Army generals. 
            
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