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Hitler meets secretly with his top military advisors. He boldly declared that to grow and prosper Germany needed the land of its niebors. He planned to absorb Austria and Czechoslovakia into the Third Reich.
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German troops marched into Austria unopposed.
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Germany announced that its union with Austria was complete.
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The Munich Agreement was signed, which turned the Sudetenland over to Germany.
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German troops poured into what remained of Czechoslovakia.
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Facist Germany and communist Russia commit never to attack eachother.
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German air force rained bombs over poland.
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Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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World War II begins
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Hitler launches suprise invasion on Denmark and Norway.
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Germans begin to assemble an invasion fleet along the french coast.
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Hitler handed Freanch officers his terms of surrender.
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RAF shot down over 185 German planes.
