-
Hitler met with his military advisers and he declared that to grow Germany needed to absorb Austria and Czechoslovakia into the Third Reich
-
-
German troops marched into Austria and announced that they were unified.
-
An agreement between France, Britain, and Germany that handed the Sudetenland over to Germany without firing a shot.
-
German troops invaded Czechoslovakia and took the land from them.
-
On this date, Stalin signed a nonaggression pact with Hitler so Germany and Russia agreed to keep peace between them.
-
The German air force flew over Poland and bombed everything. Tanks also drover through the country and helped destroy it
-
Two days after the blitzkrieg, Poland, Britain, and France declared war on Germany.
-
This was a period of eight months right after the fall of Poland where Germany waited for the other countries to make the first move in war. The Germans called this the sitzkrieg.
-
Hitler launched surprise invasions of Denmark and Norway in order to build bases and attack Britain
-
Hitler took over the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg right after he invaded Denmark and Norway.
-
Hitler handed French officers his terms of surrender and Germany took control of much of French country
-
The Germans began to assemble fleets at the border of France and eventually started an air war with Britain and ultimately lost.
-
British pilots in the RAF shot down over 185 German planes and caused Germany to call off the British invasion.
