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On November 5, 1937, Hitler met secretly with his top military advisers.
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On March 12, 1938, German troops marched into Austria unopposed. Hitler gained control over Austria.
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On September 30, 1938, they signed the Munich Agreement, which turned the Sudetenland over to Germany without a single shot being fired.
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-On March 15, 1939, German troops poured into what remained of Czechoslovakia.
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-In the spring of 1939, Hitler began his familiar routine, charging that Germans in Poland were mistreated by the Poles and needed his protection
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On August 23, 1939 fascist Germany and communist Russia now committed never to attack each other.
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On September 1, 1939, the German Luftwaffe, or German air force, roared over Poland, raining bombs on military bases, airfields, railroads, and cities.
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On September 3, 1939, two days following the terror in Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany.
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On April 9, 1940, Hitler launched a surprise invasion of Denmark and Norway in order “to protect those counties freedom and independence” but in truth, Hitler planned to build bases along the coasts to strike at Great Britain
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On June 22, 1940, at Compiègne, as William Shirer and the rest of the world watch, Hitler handed French officers his terms of surrender.
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-In the summer of 1940, the Germans began to assemble an invasion fleet along the French coast.
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On September 15, 1940, the RAF shot down over 185 German planes; at the same time, they lost only 26 aircraft's. Six weeks later, Hitler called off the invasion of Britain indefinitely.
