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Hitler planned to make Austria and Czechoslovakia a part of the Third Reich.
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Germany was unchallenged in this battle and annonced their union with Austria a day later.
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Hitler invited Chamberlain, British prime minister, and Daladier, French premier, to meet with him and told them that Sudentenland would be his "last territorial demand." The two This agreement turned Sudentenland over to Germany withoutone single shot needing to be fired. the two were eager to avoid war, so they chose to believe them.
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Hiter wasn't done expanding the Third Reich.At nightfall this night, he gloated, "Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist." After this, Hitler turned his gaze toward Germany's eastern neighnor: Poland.
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This pact was the commitment that the two countires of Germany and the Soviet Union would never attack each other.Stalin also signed a second secret pact agreeing to divide Poland between them.
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They rained bombs on military bases, airfields, railroads, and cities. They laso had tanks race across Polish countrysides, causng terror and confusion. This was also the first test of Germany's newes,ilitary strategy, blitzkrieg, or lighting war.
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Both of these countries are allies of Poland and this is how they respond to Hitler's invasion on them.
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Hitler siad that the reason for this invasion was "to protect (those countries') freedom and independence." The real reason, however, was becuase he had planned to build bases along the coasts to strike at Great Britain. Hitler turned againt the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. ThIs was the end of the phony war.
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The French government signed an armistice with Germany surrendering. The treaty provided that hostilities between the two nations would end.
