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Germany invades Czechoslovakia
In March 1938, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's next ambition was annexation of Czechoslovakia. His pretext was alleged privations suffered by ethnic German populations living in Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions, known collectively as the Sudetenland. Their incorporation into Nazi Germany would leave the rest of Czechoslovakia powerless to resist subsequent occupation. -
The Soviet Nazi Pact
The pact signed in 1939 by Germany and the Soviet Union that enabled a one-front war when Germany started World War II. -
Canada Enters the War
Canada entered World War II on September 10, 1939 when it declared war on Germany though initially its efforts were limited to the supply of raw materials and essential supplies to the European countries especially Britain. -
Invasion of Poland
The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. -
The Invasion of Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgium
Hitler had issued the order for the invasion of Norway on March 1st under the code word “Weserübung”. The order also included the invasion and occupation of Denmark. It was the start of war in Western Europe - and an end to the 'Phoney War'. -
Phony War ( sitzkrieg)
The Phoney War was a phase early in World War II—in the months following Britain's declaration of war on Germany (shortly after the German invasion of Poland) in September 1939 and preceding the Battle of France in May 1940—that was marked by a lack of major military operations in Continental Europe. -
Fall to France
Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, executed on 10 May 1940, which ended the Phoney War. -
The Miracle in Dunkirk
the French and British had been badly defeated by Germany in the Battle of France. Something over 350,000 men, including the entire British army and elements of the French and Belgian armies, were trapped in the port of Dunkirk in France. The British decided to try to evacuate them by sea. -
Invasion of France
Italy declared war on France and Britain. The French government was already fleeing to Bordeaux and Paris was an open city. Feeling that the war would soon be over, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini said to Pietro Badoglio, the Chief of Staff of the Italian Royal Army -
Battle of Britain
It was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. -
Operation Barbarossa
It was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that began on 22 June 1941 -
The attack on Pearl Harbor
was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941
