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Nazi soviet pact
In the 1930s Joseph Stalin became increasingly concerned that the Soviet Union would be invaded by Germany. Stalin believed the best way to of dealing with Germany was to form an anti-fascist alliance with countries in the west. -
Hitler tests strength of treaty or versaillies
Calls in British newspaper man Ward Price and tells him that Germany now has a military Air Force. No reaction from Britain. They intend to continue their peace movement with Germany. -
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Hitler makes an army
Hitler decrees law establishing a peacetime army of 500,000 men. -
Maritime agreement
Hitler signs a maritime agreement with Great Britain, securing conditions for building a Navy. -
Anti-jewish Riots
The Anti-Jewish Riot in berlin was the 1 of 3 and the beginning of the nazi takover -
Danzig
The Free City of Danzig was a semi- autonomous city-state that existed between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (today Gdańsk) -
Czechoslovakia1938- 1945
The German occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945) began with the Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions, known collectively as the Sudetenland, under terms outlined by the Munich Agreement. -
Anschluss
In July 1934 Austrian and German Nazis together attempted a coup but were unsuccessful. An authoritarian right-wing government then took power in Austria and kept perhaps half the population from voicing legitimate dissent; that cleavage prevented concerted resistance to the developments of 1938. -
Munich Agreement
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia -
Hitlers Blitzkrieg
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Western journalists adopted the term blitzkrieg to describe this form of armoured warfare. However, the term had already made an appearance as early as 1935, in a German military periodical Deutsche Wehr or German Defense, in connection to quick or lightning warfare. -
Poland fell
invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe -
Maginot line and the invasion of france
German forces outflanked the french and there fortified maginot line -
Fall of France
the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the successful German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, defeating primarily French forces -
Phony war or bore war
These are play on words to mock the german blitzkrieg they are so proud of. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. The objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF), especially Fighter Command. From July 1940, coastal shipping convoys and shipping centres,
