Early Events in WWII

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  • Austrian Anschluss

    Austrian Anschluss
    Hitler wanted all the countries who spoke German to be apart of Germany, he wanted to reunite Germany with his hiomeland Austria, but they were forbidden to be unified under the treaty of Versailles.
  • Munich Confrence

    Munich Confrence
    A long seris of negotations
    Hitler demanded sudetenland in czechoslovakia
    the British Prime Minister tried to talk him out of it (Neville Chamberlain)
    Adolf Hitler kept pushing for it and eventually everyone gave in and he got what he wanted.
  • Hitler Demands Danzig

    Hitler demanded annexation of Dazing to Germany and extraterritorial rail acess for Germans to cross the Polish Corridor
    danzig became a security police holding center for political prisoners and persons acused of violating labor discipline
  • Nazi Soviet Pact

    a non agression pact between Germany and Russia
  • Invasion of Poland

    Septeber 1 1939- October 6 1939
    Russians attacked Poland on the east side. September 3rd England and France declared war on Germany but not the USSR
  • The Fall of France

    The German plan of attack, codenamed Case Yellow, entailed an armoured offensive through the Ardennes Forest, which bypassed the strong French frontier defences of the Maginot Line. The advance would then threaten to encircle French and British divisions to the north, stationed on the Belgian frontier.
  • Evacyation of Dunkirk

    lasted 9 days saved 338k allied troops.
    Germany captured the Beach Port
    198k soliders were British and
    140k were Friends
  • The Battle of Britain

    July 10 1940- October 31 1940
    French signed a armistice an quit WWII on June 17 1940
    German and Britain were fighting in air and Britain won and was not invaded on land.