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Hitler
Hitler was a very good public speaker and always got the crowd to follow his ideas. His aggressive way of controlling Germany lead to start of WWII. He is also the cause of death of many jews and other innocent people. -
Anschluss
The occupation and annexation of the Germans in Austria into Nazi Germany -
Munich Conference
The Munich Conference was a group meeting of the British, French, Italian and German leaders that gave the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany. This played a major role in the start of WWII because Hitler felt like he could do whatever he wanted. -
Czechoslovakia
This country was taken over by Germany and was forced into the Nazi party. This made Hitler's empire expand. -
Danzig
This was a free country that was around the baltic sea border, and was to be seperated from the German nation. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939 the country was destroyed and formed into Reichsgau of Danzig-West Prussia, -
Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg means "lighting war" and this was a war tactic first used by the Germans which envolves speed and surprise elements. The Germans strongly used this in the first two years of WWII. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
This was a deal between Russia and Germany that said Russia will not invade Germany and Germany will not invade Russia for a given time. Hitler saw this as an advantage to invade France first then take over Russia instead of being attacked on both sides. Russia saw it as a chance to rebuild their army before war. -
Invasion of Poland
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and Britain, Poland, and France declared war on Germany. This all lead into the start of WWII. -
Phoney war
This is considered the time between september of 1939 to april of 1940 where after blitzkrieg was a pause between the war, and was called sitzkrieg, or sitting war. -
Maginot Line
The French created a war barrier to keep Germans from attacking them. The germans attacked the flanks of the French army at the Ardennes forest. Not only did they bypass the Maginot line, they separated the British from the French. That way they were able to contain the British and push them into Dunkirk, while they destroyed the French army. -
Evacuation at Dunkirk
The evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, from May 26th and 3 June 1940 The British, French and Belgian troops were cut off by the German army during the Battle of Dunkirk in WWII -
French Surrender
The French had never won a modern war and were one of the main reasons WWII started with the Treaty of Verailles. They surrendered because they were not prepared to fight Germany and did not want Paris destoryed. -
Poland fell
The Soviet army and the horrible Russian winter combined to turn the control and by the summer of 1943 the Germans army waere retreating back to Poland. The city of Lublin fell to the Soviets in July 1944.
