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Nov. 5th, 1937
Hitler met secretly with his top military advisors to speak about absorbing Austria and Czechoslovakia into the Third Reich. -
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German Expantion
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Mar. 12th, 1938
German troops marched into Austria unopposed. -
Mar. 13th, 1938
Germany announced that its Anschluss or union with Austria was complete. -
Sept. 30th, 1938
Edouard Daladier and Neville Chamberlain sighne the Munich Agreement which turned Sudetenland over to Germany without war. Winston Churchill, Chamberlain's political rival, believed that that was an appeasement which means giving up principles to pacify an agressor. -
March 15, 1939
German troops poured into what remained of Czechslovakia under Hitler's order to expand the Third Reich. -
August 23,1939
Facist Germany and communist Russia now committed never to attack each other so they couldn't fight over Poland. The nonaggression pact, however, Germany and the Soviet Union signed a seperate secret pact agreeing to divide Poland between them. -
September 1, 1939
The German air force roared over Poland, this was the first test of Germans military. Blitzkrieg made use of advances in military technology. -
September 3, 1939
Poland, Britian and France declared war on Germany. The Blitzkrieg tactics worked. The Soviet Union attacked Poland from the East, by the end of the month Poland ceased to exist and WWII had begun. -
April 9,1940
Hitler launched a surprise invasion on Denmark and Norway. He turned against the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemberg. The Phony war ended. -
June 22,1940
Hitler handed French officers his terms of surrender, which was Germans would occupy the northern part of France and a Nazi controlled government would be set up in southern France. -
summer of 1940
Germans started planning an invasion along the French Coast. But their naval power couldnt compete wuth Britian. So they launched an air war at the same time. -
September 15th, 1940
RAF shot down over 185 german planes. Six weeks later Hitler called off the invasion of Britian indefintiley .
