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Hitler meets with military advisiors
Hitler secretly met with his top military advisiors to reveal war plans. -
Germany sends troops
German troops marched into Austria unopposed. A day later, Germany announced that Anschluss, or "union," with Austria was complete. The United States and the rest of the world did nothing. -
The Munich Aggrement
Hitler invited French premier Edouard Daldier and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to meet with him in the Munich. They signed the Munich Agreement, which turned the Sudetenland over to Germany without a single shot fired. -
Germany takes over Czechoslovakia
German troops poured into Czechoslovakia. -
The Soviet Union Declares Neutrality
Hitler began his familar routine, charging that Germans in Poland were mistreated by the Poles and needed his protection. -
Hitler and Stalin
Stalin signed a nonaggression pact with Hitler. Once enemies, on August 23rd, 1939 Germany and communist Russia now committednever to attack each other. -
Blitzkrieg In Poland
As day broke on September 1st, 1939, the German Air Force roared over Poland, raining bombs on military bases, airfields, railroads, and cities. -
CBS Correspnodent
CBS correspondent William Shirer stood in the forest near Compiegne, where 22 years earlier defeated Germangenerals had signed the armistice ending World War 1. -
Germany captures Paris
Germany captures Paris, and France surrenders to the Nazis. Exacting revenge for his nation's defeat in the first World War, Hitler forces French officials to sign surrender papers in the same railroad car in which Germans signed the armistice of 1918. -
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
The United States is thrust into war when Japan launches a devastating surprise attack on the U.S. Naval fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. President Franklin Roosevelt will ask the Congress to declare war on Japan the following day, December 8th. Three days after that, Germany and Italy will declare war on the U.S.
