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Hitler secretly held a meeting with his top military advisors to boldly declare that he wanted to gain control of Austria and Czechoslovakia.
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Germany Invaded Austria unopposed. Many Austrians were in favor of Germany and Austria becoming one.
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Edouard Daladier and Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement, which peacefully turned the Sudetenland over to Germany.
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Germans invaded the little that was left of Czechoslovakia to add to the Third Reich.
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Although, Germany and Russia used to be enemies,they commited to never attack each other again.
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On this day, the German Air Force stormed over Poland and dropped bombs on airfields, military bases,cities and airfields.
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Hitler, still hungry for land, performed a surprise invasion of Norway and Denmark to, “protect their freedom and independence”.
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Italy joins the war on Germany’s side and invades France. On September 15, Hitler handed French officers his terms of surrender. Germans would now occupy the northern part of France.
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Germans began to assemble an invasion along the French coast. Germany launched an air war against Britian.On August 15, approximately 2000 German planes ranged over Britain.
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Britain’s Air Force fought back and shot down over 185 German planes and only lost 26 aircrafts.
