WW2 BEGINS

  • Hitler began to defy the Treaty of Versiles

    Hitler began to defy the Treaty of Versiles
  • Period: to

    War begins

  • Hitler calls for the unification of all German speaking people

    Hitler calls for the unification of all German speaking people
  • Hitler threatened to invade German speaking Austria unless Austrian Nazis were given important government posts

  • Britain and France gave in to Hitler's demands, a policy that came to be known as appeasement

  • Germany sent troops into Czechoslovakia and divided the country

    Germany sent troops into Czechoslovakia and divided the country
  • Britain announced that if Poland went to war to defend it's territory, Britain and France would come to it's aid

  • Creation of the non- aggression pact by the USSR and Germany

  • Warsaw, the Polish capital, fell to the Germans

  • Germany takes Polish capital

  • Germans had defeated Polish military

  • The evacuation of Dunkirk

  • Churchhill gives defyance speech against Hitler

  • Hitler accepted the French surrender in the same railway car in which the Germans had surrendered at the end of WW1

    Hitler accepted the French surrender in the same railway car in which the Germans had surrendered at the end of WW1
  • German bombers accidently bombed London, the Brittish capital

    German bombers accidently bombed London, the Brittish capital
  • Hitler cancelled the invasion of Britain

    Hitler cancelled the invasion of Britain