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  Hitler annexes Austria in an effort to unify German speaking people.
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  Several leaders agree Hitler should have the Sudetenland.
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  Hitler invades and occupies Czechoslovakia.
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  Britain begins to rearm and installed a secret radar system on the coast.
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  Germany and Russia sign a non-aggression pact with secret clauses for the invasion of Poland.
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  Hitler invades Poland
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  Britain and France enter the war
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  Hitler invades Denmark and Norway to protect supply routes of Swedish ore
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  Hitler launches his Blitzkrieg on Holland and Belgium
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  Italy joins the Axis powers
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  Hitler sends 3 million troops into Russia, ignoring the treaty he had with Russia
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  After being devastated by Germany France signs an armistice
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  German and Italian soldiers attack Yugoslavia, Greece, and Crete
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  Japan attacks a US fleet in Hawaii
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  Britain and US declare war on Japan after Pearl Harbor
