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Road to War
The Allied Powers were
The U.S., Great Britain, The Soviet Union, and France
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Rhineland
On March 1936 Hitler violates the treaty of Versailles and occupies the Rhineland.14,500 German troops march in to join with 22,000 local police to re-occupy the Rhineland. -
Anschluss
Hitler crossed the border into Austria on March 13, 1938, as Germany usurped the country into its empire -an event which became known as the Anschluss. The Austro-Hungarian Empire had allied with Germany in World War I, and, like Germany, it lost a significant amount of its pre-war territory when the empire was dismantled. -
Meetings
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain meets with Adolf Hitler in the Berghof in Germany. Chamberlain agrees to Hitler's demand to annex the Sudetenland. -
Decleration of War
Declaration of War The Allies and Commonwealth coutries, including Canada, Australia and New Zealand, declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland by Germany, since Britain had earlier made a treaty with Poland to back them up if their independence was ever threatened forcefully. -
Poland
Warsaw, Poland, surrenders to German forces. The treaty signed was called the German Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Demarcation a treaty signed by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on September 28, 1939 after their joint invasion and occupation of Poland. The treaty was a follow up to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, which the two countries had signed on August 23, prior to their invasion of Poland and the start of World War II in Europe. -
France
10th May, 1940 Hitler Invades France In the Second World War, the Battle of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, which ended the Phony War. -
France
France signs an armistice with Germany. General Charles Huntziger signs for France. Field marshal Wilhelm Keitel signs for Germany. The Germans occupy the north and west of the country, including Paris and all of the Atlantic coastline. The remaining two-fifths of France's prewar territory will be administered by its administrative centre in the resort town of Vichy (thereby creating the pro-German Vichy government). -
Soviets
Operation Barbarossa Germany launched an attack against the Soviet Union, which broke the non-aggressive pact that Hitler had made with Stalin in 1939. Hitler wanted the raw materials, agricultural land and labour for the German army,and conquering the Soviet Union was part of Hitler's long term plan for the new German Empire.The Soviets weren't ready for the attack and allowed Germans to reach their territory, where they surrendered due to Russian winter, tried again,surrendered 1943 because wi -
Japan
The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and many other targets in the Pacific.The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. There were simultaneous Japanese attacks on the U.S. held Philippines and on the British Empire in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
