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Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan form an alliance known as the Axis Powers
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German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich.
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Settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia.
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For Hitler, the Munich Agreement was nothing but a worthless piece of paper. He was already starting a plan of breaking the agreement and taking over Czechoslovakia just three weeks after signing the agreement.
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Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, that meant that they both agreed not to attack each other for 10 years.
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German forces bombard Poland on land and air, Hitler wanted to regain lost territory.
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Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany.
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The name given to the period of the time in World War II after the Blitzkrieg attack on Poland. It was given this name because for eight months nothing seemed to happen.
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Referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, it was unplanned by the Germans but they decided to do it because a Jewish teenager killed a German official in Paris.
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The German invasion of France and the Low Countries during WWII.
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It was Germany's code name for a provisionally proposed invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain.
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When the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against the German Air Force attacks.
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The operation was cancelled in September because of a large part waning strength of the Luftwaffe.
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The "Final Solution" was the killing of many Jews.
