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Hitler's plan
Hilter met secretly with his top military services to planned to takeover Austria; Hilter's first target. He planned to absorb Austria and Czechoslovakia into the Third Reich. Hitler used force. -
Overtaking Austria
German troops marched into Austria unopposed. Germany announced that it's union with austria was complete. -
Munich Agreement
Hilter had the French premier Edouard Daladier and the British prime minister Neville Chamberlian meet him in Munich. They signed the Munich agreement, which turned the Sudetenland over to Germany without a shot being fired. -
Germany and Czechoslovakia
German troops poured into the remains of Czechoslovakia.German dictator turned his land-hungry gaze torward Germanys neighbor poland -
Germany and Russia
Germany and communistb Russia noew comitted never to attack each other. Germany and Soviet Union also signed a second, secret pact, agreeing to didvide Poland between them. -
Attack
The German Luftwaffe or German air force roared over Poland. Raining bombs on military bases, airfeilds, railroads, and cities. -
Germany got attacked
Britian and France declare war on Germany -
Italy entered war
Italy entered war on the side of Germany and invaded France from the South as Germans closed in on Paris from the north. -
German offensive
German offensive trapped almost 400,000 British and French soliders they fled to the beaches of Dunkirk on the French side of the English Channel. It took less than a week for 800 vessels in all ferried about 330,000 British,French,and Belgian troops to safety across the channel. -
France fell
After France fell French general Charles de Gaulle fled to England to set up a government-in-exile. -
Hitler surrendered
World watched Hitler hand French officers his terms of surrender. -
German invasion
In the Summer of 1940 Germans began to assembke an invasion fleet along theb French Coast. -
Germans attack
Approximately 2,000 German Planes ranged over Britain. The Ball of Britain raged on through the summer. -
RAF
The RAF shot down over 185 German planes; at the same time,they lost only 26 aircrafts. -
Hitler called it off
Hitler called off the invasion of Britain indefinitely.
