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The Neutrality Act of 1935
The Congress passed the first Neutrality Act in August 31, 1935 to stop or prohibition the export of “arm, ammunition, and implements of war” from the United States to foreign nations at war and requiring arms manufactures in the United State to apply for an export license. -
The Rome-Berlin Axis
A Coalition formed between Italy, Germany, and Japan in 1936. The agreement linked the countries to take over the allied forces. The agreement between these three countries didn’t last because the allied forces did everything they could to stop the attack for World Domination. -
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The Anti-Comintern Pact
Its an agreement conclude first between Germany and Japan then between Italy. Ostensibly directed against the communist international by implication against Soviet Union -
The Neutrality Act of 1937
A law that defined exports, financial transactions, and other interactions under the banner of wartime neutrality. The Act came into effect on May 1st, 1937. Examples of exports were arms, ammunition, and implements of war. -
The Munich Conference (and appeasement)
In 1938, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sign the Munich Pact, which seals the fate of Czechoslovakia, virtually handing it over to Germany in the name of peace. -
The Austrian Anschluss
March 1938, Hitler wants all speaking German nations in Europe to be part of German -
The Nazi-Soviet Pact
On August 23, 1939, representatives from the Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union made an agreement and signed the Nazi-Soviet non-Aggression which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other -
German Invasion of Poland
On September 1st, 1939, Germany invaded Poland with strong force. The Polish Army was defeated within 4 weeks of the brutal invasion. Germany invaded Poland with more than 2,000 tanks, and 1,000 military planes. In the beginning of October, 1939, after the invasion of Poland was successful, Germany had acquired their once lost land: West Prussia, Poznan, Upper Silesia, and the former Free City of Danzig. -
Operation Dynamo (The Miracle at Dunkirk)
On May 10, 1940, the Nazis had launched their attack on Western Europe. The Nazis attacked Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg. Germany had superior airpower and an extremely powerful military that could invade most countries without effort. On June 4th, 1940, a crucial evacuation of allied soldiers from Dunkirk on the Belgian Coast took place saving more than 338,000 allied soldiers from being captured by the Nazis. -
The Fall of France
On 22 June 1940, Hitler , now the German Führer, got his revenge which was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.
