Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party.

Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

The Sturmabteilung or SA is formed by Adolf Hitler

Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.

Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch". However, he spends only nine months in jail, during which he writes ''Mein Kampf''.

Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto ''Mein Kampf''.

Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.

Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.

The ''Reichstag'' passes the Enabling act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.

''Gleichschaltung'': Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.

Adolf Hitler withdraws Nazi Germany from the League of Nations

Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey".

The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.

Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.

Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into ''Führer''.

Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.

In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters.

Adolf Hitler announces the Four Year Economic Plan to the German people. The plan details the rebuilding of the German military from 1936 to 1940.

Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.

Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honor of the German Mother

German dictator Adolf Hitler gives a public address to returning German volunteers who fought as Legion Kondor during the Spanish Civil War.

In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.

World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.

Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.

World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece.

Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.

Holocaust: under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."

Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests.

Adolf Hitler announces extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery

World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.

World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.

World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.

World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt (known as the 20 July plot) led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.

World War II: Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes over the power in Hungary.

Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia.

Adolf Hitler orders the public funeral procession of Nazi field Marshall Erwin Rommel, commander of the Deutsches Afrika Korps

Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.

World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.