Anne Frank & WWII Test Flashcards
November 11, 1918
End of World War 1
January 1923
The Nationalist Socialist German Workers’ Party, known as the Nazi Party, hold its first rally in munich
May 12, 1925
Otto Frank and Edith Hollander are married in Aachen, Germany
February 16, 1926
The Franks’ first daughter Margot, is born in Frankfurt, Germany
June 12, 1929
The Franks’ second daughter, Annelies Marie or Anne, is born in Frankfurt, Germany
January 30, 1933
Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany
February 1933
Freedom of speech and assembly is suspended by the Nazi Government
Spring 1933
The Gestapo (Secret State Police) is established. Dachau, the main concentration camp for the political prisoners, is built
April 1933
The Nazis declare a boygott of Jewish businesses and medical and legal practices. A law excluding non-Aryans removes the Jews form government and teaching positions.
May 10, 1933
Books by Jews politcal enemies of the Nazi state, and other “undesireables” are burned in huge rallies thoughout Germany
Summer 1933
THe Franks decide the family must move to the Netherlands due to increasing tensions in Germany
August 1, 1936
The Olympic Games open in Berlin, Anti-Semitic signs are removed during the games
March 12, 1938
Germany invades Austria
November 9-10, 1938
Kristallnach, a state-sponsered pogrom in Germany and Austria.Synagofues and Jewish-owned businesses are looted and destroyed, and 30,000 Jew are transported to concentration camps
March 15, 1939
The Nazis ocupy Czechoslovakia
September 1, 1939
Germany invades Poland; WORLD WAR II BEGINS.
September 1939
Hitler impliments the “Tiegarten 4” program, killing the institutionalized, phisically disabled and mentally handicapped. (T-4)
April and May 1940
Germany invades Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Luxenburg, Jewish children are made to wear the yellow star
December 7, 1941
Japan attacks the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor. The next day the United States enter the war
December 11, 1941
Germany declares war on the U.S.