German Expansion

Germany takes Austria

Mar 12, 1938

Germany invades Austria and the day after, it anounced that it's union with Austria was complete. No countries did anything to intervene.

Germany gains Sudetenland

Sep 30, 1938

Daladier (France) and Chamberlain (Britain) chose to believe Sudetenland would be his last territorial demandin order to avoid war and they signed the Munich Agreement, which signed Sudetenland over to Germany.

Czechoslovakia

Mar 15, 1939

Hitler brought in troops at the break of dawn and by nightfall, Hilter was gloating that "Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist."

Nonagression Agreement

Aug 23, 1939

Russia and Germany signed a nonagression pact. Germany and the Soviet Union also signed a second, secretive pact agreeing to divide Poland between the two of them.

Poland

Sep 1, 1939

The German airforce flew over Poland, bombing military bases, airfields, railroads, and cities while German tanks raced across the countryside. This was the first time the blitzkrieg strategy was used.

War declared on Germany

Sep 3, 1939

Two days after Germany invaded Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany.

Denmark and Norway

May 30, 1940

The war had ended.

France

Jun 22, 1940

Hitler handed French officers his terms of surrender, after Germany and Italy invaded France, and France fell

Britain

Jul 15, 1940

Germany began to assemble an invasion fleet along the French Coast. They also launched an air war at the same time as it's naval war.

Britain Victory

Sep 15, 1940

RAF shot down over 185 German planes; at the same time, they only lost 26 aircrafts. Six weeks later, Hitler called off the invasion.