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German businessmen and the conservative German National People’s Party convinced Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as chancellor.
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These three countries recognized German domination over most of continental Europe; Italian domination over the Mediterranean Sea; and Japanese domination over East Asia and the Pacific.
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German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich.
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The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest.
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Adolf Hitler privately complained to members of his SS bodyguard, "That fellow Chamberlain spoiled my entrance into Prague." so he decided to go against the agreement.
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the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
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German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun.
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The French promised the Poles that in the event of German aggression against Poland, France would launch an offensive against the Germans "no later than fifteen days after mobilization". This promise was sealed in a solemn treaty signed between Poland and France.
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Britain and France declare war on Germany and mobilized their armies along the Maginot Line.
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Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews.
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The Fall of France was a battle that took place during the Second World War in May of 1940. German forces invaded areas of France pushing the British Forces and French forces back to the sea in Operation Dynamo.
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Operation Sealion was the name given by Hitler for the planned invasion of Great Britain in 1940.
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the Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain. It lasts three and a half months
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The Battle of Britain ended when Germany’s Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force
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Japan surprise attacks the UNited States destroying the Navy, Army and Air Force.
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Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."
