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November 5, 1937
-Hitler met with his strong military leaders
-Said that he wanted land of their neighbors
-Wanted Austria and Czechoslovakia
-Said that Germany needed to take risks -
march 12, 1938
- German troops march into Austria -Next day they were united with Austria -Us and the rest of the world did nothing about it
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September 30, 1938
-To avoid war, The Munich agreement turned the Sudetenland over to Germany without a shot being fired -
March 15, 1939
- German troops poured into Czechoslovakia
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August 23, 1939
-Germany and Russia agreed to never attack eachother -
September 1, 1939
-German air force roared over Poland
-Dropped bombs on all their military bases, airfields, railroads, and cities -
September 3, 1939
-Britain and France declared was on germany -
April 9, 1940
-Surprise invasion on Denmark and Norway -
June 22, 1940
-Hitler handed french officers his terms of surrender
-William Shirer and the rest of the world saw -
Summer of 1940
-Germany began to assemble an invasion fleet along the french coast -
August 15, 1940
-2,000 German planes flew over Britain
-2 solid months they flew
-Bombers pounded London -
September 15, 1940
-The RAF shot down 185 German Planes
-They lost 26 aircrafts