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The Nuremberg Laws
These laws took awaay citizenship from the Jewish Germans and banned marriage between Jews and other Germans. -
The Austrian Anschluss
Hitler wanted all German-speaking nations in Europe to be a part of Germany. To this end, he had designs on re-uniting Germany with his native homeland, Austria. -
The Munich Conference
This conference was to debate the fate of Czechoslovakia. This conference was between Britain, France, and Germany. At the conference, Britain and France agreed to Hitler's demands, a policy known as appeasement. -
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
In April 1939, Stalin suggested an alliance of Russia, France and Britain against Germany. Hitler would not have been able to invade Poland if taking that action would have meant war with Russia. However, negotiations dragged on into August. -
Beginning
After Germany invaded Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany, declaring the start of WWII -
Invasion of Poland
The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. From East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. -
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. -
Evacuation of Dunkirk
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, during World War II. -
Battle of Britain
German air force, called the Luftwaffe, began to attack the British shipping in the English Channel. Then, in mid-August, the Luftwaffe launched an all-out air battle to destroy the Royal Air Force. -
Wannsee Conference
This conference was to determine the "final solution of the Jewish question". Previous "solutions" had included rounding up Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, and others from conquered areas, shooting them, and piling them into mass graves. Another method forced Jews and other "undesirables" into trucks and then piped in exhaust fumes to kill them. -
Hitler wants Danzig
Hitler was determined to overturn the military and territorial provisions of the Versailles treaty and include ethnic Germans in the Reich. In preparation for war with Poland, in the spring of 1939 Hitler demanded the annexation of the Free City of Danzig to Germany and extraterritorial rail access for Germany across the "Polish Corridor," the Polish frontier to East Prussia.
