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The dictator of Germany, Hitler meets with his top advisers and decides that he wants to absorb Austria and Czechoslovakia.
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Germany marches to and takes over Austria
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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.
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Germans march and takeover the rest of Czechoslovakia.
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Hitler goes to the news and makes claims that Germans living in Poland are mistreated in the spring of 1939.
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Russian dictator, Stalin signs a nonaggression pact with Hitler and declares that Russia and Germany wouldn't attack each other.
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A second pact is signed in secret between Germany and the Soviet Union that divides Poland between the two of them
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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.
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Britain and France declare war on Germany because of the invasion of Poland.
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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.
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Hitler launches a surprise attack on Denmark and Norway and takes over both of the countries.
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By the end of May the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg are overrun by Germany.
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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.
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Hitler gives French officers his terms of surrender and they surrender.
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After the fall of french a french general named Charles de Gaulle flees to England and sets up government-in-exile.
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Summer of 1940 Germans assemble an invasion fleet along the french coast and also launched an air war at the same time
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On any given night throughout a solid two months German planes flew over Britain and dropped bombs.
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The RAF shot down over 185 German aircraft while only loosing 26 planes that day.
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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.
