German Expansion Timeline

  • WWI Ends

    WWI Ends
  • HItler Joins German Workers' Party

    HItler Joins German Workers' Party
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles
    The Treaty of Versailles called for Germany to take responsibility for WWI and that they would have to pay money because of the war.
  • Treaty of Munich

    Hitler agreed to stop invading countries if they had surrendered the Sudetenland to him.
  • Non Aggression Pact

    Germany and Russia agree not to invade each other.
  • Phoney War

    After the blitzkrieg attack on Poland, nothing happens during this 'war'.
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    WWII

  • Italy joins war on Axis side

    Italy sides with Axis Powers.
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Hitler decides to invade Russia by surprise even after Non Aggression Pact was signed.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Japan attacks US territory known as Pearl Harbor.
  • Italy Surrenders

    After being invaded by British and US forces, Italy surrenders.
  • D-Day

    Allies launch attack on Germany's forces in Normandy, Western France.
  • Hitler commits suicide

    Hitler commits suicide.
  • Victory over Europe Day

    Allies win the war over the Axis powers.