A timeline in Propaganda, 1929 - 1945

the 'Enabling law' allowed Hitler to rule without the Reichstag for 4 years.

the Reichstag was the parliament. No party had a majority in the Reichstag. The building where the Reichstag had their meetings was burned down.

Hitler banned all the political parties. But he did not ban the Nazis

The Leaque of Nations is a peace treaty. Countries could join this peace treaties. (the Leaque of Nations) this was set up to prevent wars. But many countries did not join. Or many powerfull countries were not allowed to join. The leaque was President Wilson's idea. Germany was also not allowed to join. Altough they did join at a certain moment. that was in 1926. But Germany left in 1934. That was also the year that Russia (then called the Soviet Union) finally joined.

Hindenburg was the only one that could stop Hitler from having all the power.

-Jews had no right to vote
-Jews were not allowed to mary non-Jews
-Jews were separated form the population
-Jews had to wear a yellow star

Hitler signed the Rome-Berlin axis with Italy, so Germany had a major ally

The Dutch economy came out of 'the depression'

Chamberlain returned from Munich saying Britain, France, Italy and Germany had signed a peace treaty. Germany was given Sudentenland as a price for signing this peace treaty.

Jewish shops were attacked all over Germany and thousands Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps

Hitler and Stalin signed an agreement that said that they would not fight each other. they would invade Poland together and devide it.

the Phoney war was the time when the west was in a little fight. Hilter waited for this to finish so he could invade the west.

Operation Yellow was the invasion of Western Europe. Hitler had a new way of attacking. Lightning attacks that relied on rapid movement. German planes bombed the area to be occupied. no one expected this. At a certain moment people had experienced this tactic of Hitler but the countries could not handle it.

this was the date that the Netherlands officialy surrendered

Sneevliet and his group were cought by Nazis and they were shot. Sneevliet was a man that set up a party called the ISDV. it had Dutch and Indonesian members. This was very unusual. in 1917 the government decided that he had to be banned from the Dutch East Indies. Lenin was impressed by Sneevliet so he sent him to China in July 1921 to represent Russia. After that he went back to the Netherlands. When the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940 he started to hide. (the Nazis were anti communist) Sneevliet came up with a new group for people that didn't like the Nazis. he organized the February strike in 1941. But in 1942 he was caught and he and his group were shot.