-
Hitler rises to power
Hitler is elected chancellor of Germany -
Period: to
German expansion
-
Hitler plans to annex its neighbors
Hitler says he needs to take the land of Czechoslovakia and Austria to make Germany powerful again -
Hitlers plans
Adolf Hitler held a secret conference in the Reich Chancellery with military advisers where he revealed his plans to expand Germany's living space. Hitler's dream was to expand Germany at any cost and create a perfect society made up of all white Aryans with blonde hair and blue eyes. Slavs ,Americans , blacks, British, french, Jews and even there Italian allies are considered subhumans. -
Mar 12, 1938, Germany Invades Austria
German troops march into Austria. A day later Hitler announced an Anschluss with Austria without a shot being fired. Austria was annexed into a greater Germany. Austria was now apart of Hitler's empire -
Austria unifies with Germany
Germany and Austria unite German troops walk in without opposition -
Hitler gains public support on conquest of Czechoslovakia
Hitler wanted Czechoslovakia to provide more living space for Germany and also to control the natural resources there. Selling lies to the German people, Hitler made it seem as if Czechs were abusing the German people living there -
Hitler appeased at Munich
Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Edouard Daladier, Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact, which gives Germany Czechoslovakia in the name of peace. -
Germany invades Poland
at 4:45 1.5 million Waffen SS troops invade Poland. there are bombings and other air assaults from the German Luftwaffe as well as German u boats attacking polish vessels in the Baltic sea -
France and Britain declare war
In response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of Poland declared war on Germany the reason due to the fact that the British ocean liner Athenia, which was sunk by a German submarine that thought the ship was armed. There were more than 1,100 passengers -
Germany invades Norway and Denmark
German forces were able to slip through mines Britain had laid around Norwegian ports. In Denmark, King Christian X, convinced his army could not fight off a German invasion, surrendered almost immediately -
France is giving in
Paris has fallen and the German conquest of France reaching the end Marshal Henri Petain replaces Paul Reynaud as Prime Minister and announces that he wants to sign an armistice with the Nazis. -
Germany's Attack gets defeated
The Battle of Britain reaches the end when the Royal Air Force shot down 56 Luftwaffe aircraft in less than an hour. This defeat made Germany realize that the German Luftwaffe doesn't have and couldn't retain air supremacy over Britain.
