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Adolf Hitler is born.
He is born in Braunau Inn, Austria -
His brother dies
His brother, Edmund Hitler, dies and Adolf becomes vey sad -
His father, Alois Hitler, dies
His father, Alois Hitler, dies of lung hemorrhage at an inn wheere he had gone to drink his morning glass of wine -
Adlof drops out of school
Hitler uses a lung ailment as an excuse to take time off from school and eventually drops out altogether -
He tries at Vienna School of Fine Arts and fails
Hitler tries and fails the admission exam at the Vienna School of Fine Arts -
Runs out of money
Hitler runs out of money and moves into a homeless shelter in Vienna, Austria (Austria-Hungary at that time) -
His mother, Klara Hitler, dies
His mother, Klara Hitler, dies of breast cancer -
Settled into a house
By 1910, he had settled into a house for poor working men on Meldemannstraße -
He goes to Britian to visit his half-brother
Hitler visits his half brother, Alois Jr, who is living in Liverpool, UK -
He moves to Munich
Adolf Hitler moved to Munich, Germany -
He serves in World War I
Served in World War I as a runner for the 16th Barvarian reserve Regiment -
World War 1 begins
World War 1 begins -
Wounded in World War 1
Hitler suffers a serious thigh wound at the Battle of the Somme -
He joins the war again
He rejoins his regiment after he finished healing -
He gets blinded in a battle
Hitler is blinded in a British clorine gas attack near Ypres soon before the end of the war -
Appointed a police spy
He is made a Verbindungmann (poliece spy), meets Dietrich Eckart who teches him how to dress and speak influently -
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He enters politics
Hitler becomes an army informer "weeding out" fellow soldiers who had supported Marxist uprisings in Munich earlier that year. Hitler discovers his talent for public speaking in several outbursts against the Jews at political meetings. He is later appointed leader of the Nazi Party -
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Silent years
Hitler stays quiet and plans for power -
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He runs for president
Adolf runs for president of Germany against the hugely repected Paul von Hindenburg -
The Nazis (the ones Hitler leads) set fire on a building
The Nazis stage a fire at the German parliament in Berlin, the Reichstag. Hitler claims that communists are behind the fire. -
Hitler passes a law that makes him the "democratic" dictator
The Nazis' "Enabling Act" passes in the Reichstag. This Act was officially called the "Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich" and effectively ended democracy, handing the dictatorship to Hitler. -
HItler takes control of Germany
The President Paul von Hindenburg dies. Hitler announces a new "Führer law" to be the only one voted on in an election -
Hitler decides to ignore treaty of Versailles
Hitler openly announces that Germany is ignoring the Treaty of Versailles and rearming -
Hitler opens the Olympic Games and tries to form and alliance with UK
He tries unsuccessfully to forge an alliance with the United Kingdom. Hitler opens the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin -
Hitler signs the “Munich Agreement”
Hitler signs the “Munich Agreement” with the leaders of England, France and Italy which allows hime to openly invade Czechoslovakia -
He is named the "Man of the Year" by the Time magazine
Hitler is named Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year”, a dubious honor given to someone who “for better or for worse, has done the most to influence the events of the year”. -
He turns 50
Hitler’s 50th birthday featuring the largest military parade in Third Reich history, about 50,000 troops took part -
Russia's leader accepts a Nazi-Soviet pact
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin accepts a Nazi Soviet pact of non-aggression called the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. -
World War 2 starts
Germany invades Poland, starting World War 2 -
Germany invades surrounding countries
Hitler’s forces move west, invading the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France -
Japan and Italy join the way
Hitler signs the Tripartite Treaty with the leaders of Japan and Italy, which become known as the Axis Powers -
Germany invades Russia
Hitler breaks the Nazi Soviet Pact and invades Russia -
Germany declares war on the United States
Hitler declares war on the United States following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor -
Hitler's 6th Army is destroyed
Hitler’s 6th Army is destroyed in the Battle of Stalingrad -
D-Day occurs when Allied forces invade France
D-Day landings in France. Some German leaders now see defeat as inevitable and start to plot against Hitler -
There is an attempt on Hitler's life
A failed assassination of Hitler takes place at his Wolf’s Lair headquarters in modern day Poland
