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On November 5, 1937 Hitler met top military advisers and told them that Germany needed to take over neighbor countries to be able to grow and prosper as a country
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German troops marched into Austria unopposed and unionized
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Germany signed the Munich Agreement. This agreement gave Sudetenland over to Germany. No shots were fired.
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German Troops poured into what remained of Czechoslovakia and took it over. Hitler now wanted to take over Poland.
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Hitler said that Germans are being mistreated in Poland. He said to stop this, they need to invade them and take over Poland.
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Fascist Germany and Communist Russia signed a nonaggression pact. This ensured that they would not attack each other for 10 years. Germany and the Soviet Union also signed a secret pact that let them agree to dividing Poland between them. RIP Poland.
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The German air force rained bombs on military bases, airfields, railroads, and cities. German tanks raced across the Polish countryside, which caused terror and confusion. This type of war is called blitzkrieg which means lightning war.
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Poland, Britain, and France declared war on Germany.
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Stalin sent his Soviet army into Finland. After 3 months of fighting the outnumbered Finns surrendered.
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Hitler launched a surprise invasion of Denmark and Norway. Hitler planned to build bases along the coasts to strike Great Britain. By the end of May, Hitler turned against Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg and took them over.
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William Shiner and the Rest of the World watched Hitler hand the terms of surrender over to French Officers. France signed them and Germany occupied Northern France.
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Germany prepared to assemble an invasion fleet along the French coast to attack Britain. Since the British Navy was the strongest in the world, Germany also assembled an air fleet as well.
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The Royal Air Force of Britain shot down 126 German planes, while only losing 26 planes. 6 weeks later Hitler called off the invasion of Britain. German bombers continued to hit Britain cities to stop production and lower civilian morale. British pilots did the same to German cities
