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Nazi-Soviet Pact
Stalin believed the best way to of dealing with Germany was to form an anti-fascist alliance with countries in the west. so he created this pact to protect Russia and other European countries. -
HItler
Adolf Hitler signs a secret decree authorizing the founding of the Reich Luftwaffe as a third German military service to join the Reich army and navy. He built up an air force to go agains Britain. -
Anschluss
On this day Hitler announces an "Anschluss" (union) between Germany and Austria, in fact annexing the smaller nation into a greater Germany -
Munich Conference
leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. -
Czechoslovakia
Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions, known collectively as the Sudetenland. Hitler's pretext for this effort was the alleged privations suffered by ethnic German populations living in those regions. -
Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg tactics required the concentration of offensive weapons (such as tanks, planes, and artillery) along a narrow front. These forces would drive a breach in enemy defenses, permitting armored tank divisions to penetrate rapidly and roam freely behind enemy lines -
Poland Fell
Germany invaded poland and defended them and took over poland. made a German city in poland. -
Danzig
On this day, Adolph Hitler, then chancellor of Germany declared to his parliament (Reichstag) that enough was enough that Danzig in Poland was a German city full of German people and should be taken back -
Poland, Britain, France
The objective of this policy was to maintain peace in Europe by making limited concessions to German demands. Then Germany attacked poland and poland lost, so then Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland's border, had declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939 -
Phony war or Bore War
In months following Britain and Frances declaration of war on Germany after the invasion in poland, the allies went to war with Germany. The War was declared by each side but no western power had committed. -
Maginot Line
The Maginot Line was a vast fortification that spread along the French/German border but became a military liability when the Germans attacked France in the spring of 1940 using blitzkrieg – a tactic that completely emasculated the Maginot Line’s purpose. Hitler seperated the british and French so they were able to contain the British and push them into Dunkirk, while they destroyed the French army -
French Surrender
German invasion of France. they attacked and the French Surrendered. -
Evacuation at Dunkirk
evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, -
Battle of Britain
The Air Battle for England, air capaign waged by the German Air Force. this was to gain air superiority over the royal air force. was the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to date. Germany lost for the first time in this battle it was a crucial turning point in WWII.
