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During this secret meeting, Hitler expressed his ideas toward the growth and well-being of Germany. He had said that Germany needed its neighbors' lands, specifically Austria and Czechslovakia.
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On this day, German troops unopposedly marched into Austrian lands and declared, the next day, that Austria was now bound to Germany. While this was going on, the world (including the US) did nothing as an attempt to prevent another World War.
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The agreement was met by Germany, France, which allowed Germany to take Sudetenland. Germany had gained a part of Czechoslovakia without any violence.
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German expansion involved Hitler invading Czechoslovakia with German troops. During nightfall Hitler had announced that the country had no longer existed.
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Unexpectedly, Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler signed a nonaggression pact after being enemies. This pact went along with another which agreed to split Poland between the two countries.
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The military strategy the blitzkrieg, or lightning war, was created by German forces to invade the Polish countryside. During the invasion, fast tanks and air crafts were used.
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Once the terror of Poland had come to the attention of Great Britain and France, both countries declared war on Germany as a response to the chaos.
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Surprising the world, Hitler invaded Denmark and Norway as a means to "protect [those countries'] freedom and independence." However, Hitler wanted to construct bases along the coasts in order to attack Great Britain.
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After Italy entered the war as an ally of Germany and invaded France, Germany also invaded Paris. Shortly, after Hitler handed French officers his terms of surrender which included Germans occupying the northern part of France, and a Nazi-controlled government in southern France.
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Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) were able to use radar, something Germany did not have, to successfully take down over 185 planes, while German bombers terrorized British cities.
