WW2 BEGINS By menrac15 Jan 1, 1935 Hitler began to defy the Treaty of Versiles Period: Jan 1, 1935 to Jan 1, 1941 War begins Jan 1, 1937 Hitler calls for the unification of all German speaking people Jan 1, 1938 Hitler threatened to invade German speaking Austria unless Austrian Nazis were given important government posts Sep 29, 1938 Britain and France gave in to Hitler's demands, a policy that came to be known as appeasement Mar 1, 1939 Germany sent troops into Czechoslovakia and divided the country Mar 31, 1939 Britain announced that if Poland went to war to defend it's territory, Britain and France would come to it's aid Aug 23, 1939 Creation of the non- aggression pact by the USSR and Germany Sep 27, 1939 Warsaw, the Polish capital, fell to the Germans Sep 27, 1939 Germany takes Polish capital Oct 5, 1939 Germans had defeated Polish military Jun 4, 1940 The evacuation of Dunkirk Jun 4, 1940 Churchhill gives defyance speech against Hitler Jun 22, 1940 Hitler accepted the French surrender in the same railway car in which the Germans had surrendered at the end of WW1 Aug 23, 1940 German bombers accidently bombed London, the Brittish capital Oct 12, 1940 Hitler cancelled the invasion of Britain
