Germany Top 10 Events During WWII

The Holocaust

1 CE

The genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered around six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.

Invasion of Poland

2

Initiating World War II in Europe. German forces broke through Polish defenses along the border and quickly advanced on Warsaw, the Polish capital.

Battle of Britain

3

Demonstrated the courage and resilience of the country's military and its people and allowed them to remain free from Nazi occupation

Adolf Hitler commits suicide

4

Died on 4/30/45. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied Forces

The Treaty of Versailles

5

Signed signed on June 28, 1919 at the Palace of Versailles in Paris at the end of World War I. It held Germany responsible for starting the war and imposed harsh penalties in terms of loss of territory, massive reparations payments and demilitarization

Invasion of Soviet Union

6

Hitler & Stalin signed Non Aggression Pact, promising not to attack each other. But Hitler broke the Pact and invaded the Soviet Union

Hitler Annexing Austria

7

German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich

Battle of the Bulge

8

Germany's last attempt to push through Allied troops

Hitler sending troops to the Rhineland

9

Adolf Hitler sent over 20,000 troops back into the Rhineland, an area that was supposed to remain a demilitarized zone according to the Treaty of Versailles.

Invasion of Czechoslovakia.

10

The German invasion of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 brought an end to Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy