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Hilter secretly met with his top military advisors to discuss plans on absorbing Austria and Czechoslovakia into the Third Reich.
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German troops marched into Austria. A day later, Germany's "anschluss," or union, with Austria was declared.
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To avoid war, France premier, Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, sign the Munich Agreement, turning Sudetenland over to Germany. In Winston Churchill's eyes, Daladier and Chamberlain had adopted a shameful policy of appeasement (giving up morals and principles to oblige an aggressor).
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German troops invade and absorb Czechoslovakia.
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Stalin agreed to never attack Germany by signing Hilter's "Nonaggression Pact."
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The "Luftwafe," or German air force, attacked Poland with bombs, obeying Hitler's newest war strategy, "blitzkreig," or "lightning war." By the end of the month, Poland ceased to exist.
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France and Britain declare war on Germany. By the end of the month, World War II had begun.
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Hitler launches a surprise invasion of Denmark and Norway in order to "protect" their independence and freedom.
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Hitler hands his terms of surrender to French officers. After France fell, a French general, named Charles de Gaulle fled and set up a government-in-exile in England. "France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war," -de Gaulle.
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Over 2,000 German planes spread throughout the sky over Britain. For two months, London was pounded with bombs.
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The RAF pilots shot down over 185 German planes while only losing 26 of their own.
