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Hitler threatened to invade German-Speaking Austria unless Astrian Nazis were given important government posts.
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Hitler sends troops into Austria and anounced the Anschluss of Austria and Germany.
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Britain and France agreed to Hitlers demands, a policy that came to be known as appeasement, or made concessions in exchange for peace.
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A month after the Munich Conference, Hitler demands that the city of Danzig be under German control.
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Hitler sent troops in to Czechoslovakia and divided the country, Slovakia was actually independent in name, but it was under German control.
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Britain announced that if Poland went to war to defend its territory, the British and French would come to its aid.
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German troops parachuted into the Netherlands, tanks rolled into Belgium and Luxembourg. The British and French expected the attack and raced into Belgium.
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Hitler ordered the German army to invade Poland. He also ordered his foreign minister to begin negotiations with the USSR.
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French, Dutch, and Belgian ships joined the british ones in operation dynamo. 45,000 troops were expected to be rescued but instead they rescued an estimated 338,000 British and French troops... this was known as the "Miracle of Dunkirk"
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The nonagression pact was signed by Germany and the USSR, Communism and Nazism were supposed to be totally opposed to each other.
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Germany invaded Poland, two days later Britain and France declared war on Germany. WW2 had begun!!
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The Blitzkrieg used large numbers of massed tanks to break through the and encircle enemy positions, aircraft supported also. After Germans bombed their positions and cut their supply lines, Warsaw, the Polish capitol, fell to Germany.
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The Germans had defeated the Polish army.
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Winston Churchill delivered a defiant speech in parliament, vowing that Britain would never surrender.
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The French surrendered to the Germans in the same railway car that the Germans had surrendered at the end of WW1. Germany now occupied most of northern France and its atlantic coastline.
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The German Luftwaffe begins to attack British shipping in the English Channel.
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German Bombers accidentally bombed London, the British capital. This attack enraged the British, who responded by bombing Berlin the following night.
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In mid August the German Luftwaffe launched a massive air attack to destroy the Royal Air Force, it lasted into the fall of 1940.
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Hitler cancels the invasion of Britain.
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The Japanese executed a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, they had no idea about an attack.
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America is frustrated from the Pearl Harbor, we inturn declare war on Japan.
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Two days after Pearl Harbor was bombed the Japs attacked American airfields in the Philippines. The forces there were greatly outnumbered.
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America declares war on Germany.
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A military planner suggested to replace the short-range bombers with long-range B-25's that could attack from further away.
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Decoded Japanese messages alerted the US to the attack on New Guinea.
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At the end of March, a crane loaded 16 B-25 bombers onto an aricraft carrieer named the Hornet.
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The defenders of the Bataan Peninsula finally surrender.
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In the spring, the German submarine campaign was at its highest point.
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In the spring, before the the battle of the Atlantic, Adolf Hitler was very confident that he would win the war.
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American bombs fell on Japan for the first time.
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In early May, carriers from America and Japan lauched all out airstrikes against one another.
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The small force that was holding the island of Corregidor finally surrenders. The Philippines have fallen to the Japs.
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Hitler ordered the capture of strategic oil fields, factories, and farmlands in southern Russia and Ukraine.
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Unaware they were heading into an ambush, the Japs launched an aircraft attack on midway.
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Roosevelt agreed and ordered the invasion of Morocco and Algeria.
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From this point onward, American shipyards produced more ships than the German submarines could manage to sink.
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German submarines sunk about 360 American ships along the East Coast.
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In mid-September, Stalin ordered his troops to hold the city of Stalingrad at all costs.
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General Erwin Rommel, commanded the Afrika Korps but was forced to retreat by the British.
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Soviet reinforcements arrived and surrounded Stalingrad, trapping almost 250,000 German troops.
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Some 91,000 Germans had surrendered.
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The last of the German troops that were in North Africa surrender.
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After the Bataan death march, sixty-six women nurses were captured and sent to the University of Santo Tomas in Manilla whare they remained until early 1945.
