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The Anschluss
Known as the union was the enthusiastic support of most of the Austrian populationion and was retroactively approved via a plebiscite in April 1938. Although neither Jews nor Roma (Gypsies) were allowed to vote, the results were manipulated to indicate that more than 99 percent of the Austrian people wanted the union with Germany. -
The Munich Conference
The settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia -
The Nazi Soviet Pact
Hitler prepared to invade Poland. He negotiated with the Soviet Union in order to keep the peace with them.
Germany and USSR signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact. That kept USSR out of the war if Germany went to war against Britain and France in exchange for Polish lands. -
Danzig and the Polish Corridor
After taking the Sudetenland, Hitler wanted Danzig
Part of Germany separated by Poland at the end of World War I
Hitler wanted to build a highway and a railroad across Poland to connect Germany, Danzig and East Prussia, but Britain and France knew it failed. They said that they would back up Poland if Hitler invaded. Poland denied Hitler. -
The War Begins
Germany invades Poland. France and Brittain declare war on Germany.
