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Non-Aggression Pact
The German-Polish non-aggression pact was a treaty that was created between the Second Polish republic and Nazi Germany. It stipulated the agreement of both countries to put an end to their problems by creating bilateral negotiations. -
Knight of the long Knives
Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization's leaders, including Ernst Röhm. -
Appeasement (Chamberlain)
Neville Chamberlain was the British prime minister who believed in appeasement. In 1938, Germans living in the border areas of Czechoslovakia started to demand a union with Hitler's Germany. The Czechs refused and Hitler threatened war. -
Kristallnacht
Hitler and the Nazis implemented their so-called “Final Solution” to the what they referred to as the “Jewish problem,” and carried out the systematic murder of some 6 million European Jews in what came to be known as the Holocaust.
