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military build up of the wermacht
Adolf hitler on november 5, 1937 met with the german general staff to discuss his plans to acuire the territory of the third Reich's neibhors. such territory would be seized from austria, czechoslovakia, and poland. -
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expansion of the third Reich
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Anschlus of austria
on march 12, 1938 the german army marched into austria unepossed, forming a union between austria and germany somthing that was forbidden in the treaty of versaie the league of nation tookno action against germany. -
annexation of the sudetanland
on september 30th 1938 the great powers of europe germany italy france and great britain all met to discuss the future of the sudetnland hitler promised that it was his last territorial demand and in the munich agreement germany was awarded the sudetanland from czechoslovakia. -
fall of czechoslovakia
the wermacht poors into whats left of czechoslovakia and completly over run the country the next day hitler declares that the country has ceased to exist not a shot was fired -
increasing german demands
hitler now sets his sights east he demands the danzig corridor from poland which is polands only root to the sea and has a population made up of almost entirely ethnic germans. -
the ribbentrop pact
the ribbentrop pact sighned by the soviet union and nazi germany was a non-aggression agreement and a secret treaty to divide poland between them. -
the war begins invasion of poland
on september 1st 1939 the the german army ''wermacht" invaded poland using the blitzkrieg strategy lightning war in german. -
german invasion of denmark and norway
in april of 1940 the wermacht invaded the scandanavian countries of denmark and norway to keap the iron trade going betwean germany and sweden. -
german invasion of holland, belgium ,and luxemborg
The Battle of the Netherlands was part of Case Yellow, the German invasion of the Low Countries and France during World War II. The battle lasted from 10 May 1940 until the main Dutch forces surrendered on the 14th -
after the fall of france
in june 25th the wermacht had succesfuly completed the invasion of france. paving the way for the luftwaffe "german airforce" to begin the airiel bombing of great britain. -
contineud threat to britain
in september of 1940 hitler declares that the invasion of britain will be cancelled but the air war against england will be continued indefinetly.
