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Anschluss
the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938. -
munich conference
Conference held in Munich on September 28--29, 1938, during which the
leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex
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Danzing
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At the end of the first world war, Danzing was taken from German control and
made a free city. In 1939 the Danzing city counci was pro Nazi, on the eve of
the German invasion of Poland a German war ship arived in Danzing harbor. When the German invasion of Poland started this ship fired on Pro Polish positions in the city. The city, not part of Poland in 1939, was takn by Germany with Poland. -
phony war
The Phoney War was a phase early in World War II that was marked by a lack of major military operations by the Western Allies (the United Kingdom and France) against the German Reich. The phase covered the months following Britain and France's declaration of war on Germany (shortly after the invasion of Poland) in September 1939 and preceding the Battle of France in May 1940. War was declared by each side, but no Western power had committed to launching a significant land offensive, notwithstand -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
On August 23, 1939, representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. -
Poland, Britain, France Sept 1, 1939
germans invade poland and defeats them -
poland fell
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. -
Dunkirk evacuation
The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940. The operation became necessary when large numbers of British, French, and Belgian troops were cut off and surrounded by the German army during the Battle of France in World War II. In a speech to the House of Commons, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called the events in France "a -
invasion of france
. German armour outflanked the Maginot Line and pushed deep into France with German forces arriving in an undefended Paris on 14 June. This caused a chaotic period of flight for the French government and effectively ended organized French military resistance. German commanders finally met with French officials on June 18 with the goal of the new French government being an armistice with Germany -
France surrenders
blitzkrieg invasion of the Low Countries and France with a fury on May 10, 1940. Within three weeks, a large part of the British force, accompanied by some of the French defenders, is pushed to the English Channel and compelled to abandon the continent at Dunkirk. -
Blitzkrieg
a very fast war tactict where all the soldiers are very mobile
