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Hitler's secret meeting
The dictator of Germany, Hitler meets with his top advisers and decides that he wants to absorb Austria and Czechoslovakia. -
Germany Marches
Germany marches to and takes over Austria -
Munich Agreement
French Prime Minister, Edouard Daladier and British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain sign a Munich agreement with Hitler and peacefully sign over Sudetenland over to Germany. Sudetenland is a part of Czechoslovakia. -
Germany Takes Over Czechoslovakia
Germans march and takeover the rest of Czechoslovakia. -
Hitler Claims Germans living in Poland are Mistreated
Hitler goes to the news and makes claims that Germans living in Poland are mistreated in the spring of 1939. -
Nonaggression Pact
Russian dictator, Stalin signs a nonaggression pact with Hitler and declares that Russia and Germany wouldn't attack each other. -
Secret Pact
A second pact is signed in secret between Germany and the Soviet Union that divides Poland between the two of them -
Germany Takes over Poland
Germany invades Poland forcefully as they test their new military strategy, Blitzkrieg. The strategy is a surprise attack where they use their new military technology. -
Britain and France Declare War
Britain and France declare war on Germany because of the invasion of Poland. -
The Phony War
The following months after the fall of Poland, British and French troops sat on their Maginot line waiting for the Germans to make a move. Germans just sat on their Siegfried line and stared back. -
Hitler attacks Denmark and Norway
Hitler launches a surprise attack on Denmark and Norway and takes over both of the countries. -
Hitler Continues to Take Over Countries
By the end of May the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg are overrun by Germany. -
British, French, and Belgium Troops Cross the Channel
German's offense trapped thousands of British and French Soldiers on the beaches of Dunkirk of the French side of the English channel. Within a week the troops crossed the channel in their makeshift boats. -
French Surrender
Hitler gives French officers his terms of surrender and they surrender. -
Charles de Gaulle goes to England
After the fall of french a french general named Charles de Gaulle flees to England and sets up government-in-exile. -
Germans begin to prep
Summer of 1940 Germans assemble an invasion fleet along the french coast and also launched an air war at the same time -
German planes range Britain
On any given night throughout a solid two months German planes flew over Britain and dropped bombs. -
RAF Brings down German planes
The RAF shot down over 185 German aircraft while only loosing 26 planes that day. -
Invasion is called off
Hitler calls off the German's invasion of Britain a few weeks after loosing over 185 aircraft. Germany and Britain continue to bomb each other's cities.
