Depicting the Major Political and Military Events Of 1938-1941

  • Germany's Anschluss with Austria

    Germany's Anschluss with Austria
    • Germany captured Austria and the morning and there was lots of cheering and giving them the Fascist salute and offering flowers. -Catholics and Lutheran leaders welcomed the invaders but the Vatican refused to welsome Cardinal Theodor Innitzer’s.
  • Germany's Annexation of the Sudetenland

    Germany's Annexation of the Sudetenland
    -Hitler was the one in charge of this annexation and was his idea.
    -This was successful and lead to Hitler becoming ambitious in his next actions.
  • The Munich Pact

    The Munich Pact
    -allowed the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
    -The major powers of this were help in Euorpe and Hitler
  • Hitler's Annexation of Czechoslovakia

    Hitler's Annexation of Czechoslovakia
    -annexed the western and norther boader regions
    -was currently called Sudetenland, and they were able to do this because of the Munich Agreement.
  • The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

    The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
    -It was before the beginning of World War II that Ribbentrop and Molotov signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
    -It said that Germany and the Soviet Union would not attack eachother.
  • Germany's Invasion of Poland

    Germany's Invasion of Poland
    -The German warships and U-boats attacked the Poland naval forces that were in the Baltic Sea.
    -At 4:45 a.m. more than 1 million German troops invaded Poland along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory.
  • The Phony War

    The Phony War
    -Hitler’s forces prepared for an attack of the west, and aunch an invasion against Scandinavia.
    -Between the end of the fighting in Poland and the German they were against France, Belgium, and Holland, there is little actual fighting between the Germans and the Allies.
  • Fall of France

    Fall of France
    -Was called Case Yellow
    -Fall came after the nine months being at war
  • The Miracle at Dunkirk

    The Miracle at Dunkirk
    -340,000 British and French troops were evacuated from the attacked port of Dunkirk.
    -code-named Operation Dynamo by the British
  • The Battle of Britain

    The Battle of Britain
    -one of the most famous battles of World War Two.
    -the first battle to be fought entirely by air forces