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Hitler denounces Treaty of Versaliles. Italy invateds Ethiopia
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Germany sends trops into the Rhineland, defying the treaty Versaailles.
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Hitler called for the unification of all German speaking people, including those in Austria & Czechoslovakia. Germany could expand its territory only by "Resort[ing] to force with its attendant risks"
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Hiter sent troops into Austria in March and announced the Anschluss, or unification, of Austria and Germany.
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Britain and France agreed to Hitler's demands, a policy that became known as appeasement. They made concessions in exchange for peace.
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Hitler demands the return of Danzig to Germany.
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The Nazi - Soivet Pact is signed. One week later on september 1st Germany invades poland.
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France declared war on Germany - WWII had begun
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The Germans used a new type of warfare called Blitzkrieg aka the lightening war. Large numbers of massed tanks to break through and rapidly encircle enemy positions. To support the tanks, waves of aircraft bombed ebemy posititions and dropped paratroppers to cut their supply lines.
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The Polish army couold not repel the attack. Warsaw the Polish capital fell to the Germanys on September 27. By October 5, 1939, the Germans had feeated the Polish military.
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After World War One the French built a line of concrete bunkers and fortifications called the Maginot Line, along the German border. Rather than risk their troops by attacking, the French prefered to wait behind the Maginot Line for the Germans to approach.
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The British had sent troops to defensive, waiting for the Germans to attack.
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The Germans captured all but one port, Dunkirk, in northern France near the Belgain border. Almost all of the Brisish army's equipment remained at Dunkirk - 900,000 rukfes, 7,000 tons of ammunition and 120,000 vehicles.
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German air force called the Luftwaffe, began to attack British shipping the English Channel. In mid-August, the luftwagge launched an all-out air battle to destroy the Royal Air Force. This battle lastest until fall of 1940.
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Hitler accepted the French surrender in the same railway car in wich the Germans had surrendered at the end of World War One. Germany now occupied much of northern France and its Atlantic coastline.
