German Expansion Timeline

By kulinz

  • China Invasion

    China Invasion
    Hideki Tojo, Chief of staff of Japans Kwantung Army, launched the invasion into China.

  • Land Expansion

    Land Expansion
    Hitler met secretly with his top military advisers to say that to grow and rosper, Germany needed the land of its neighbors.

  • Austria

    Austria
    German troops march into Austria unopposed. This caused many countries to watch Germany to see what they were going to do next.

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    Nazi Storm troopers attack Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany and Austria.

  • Czechovakia

    Czechovakia
    German troops took over Cezechoslovakia.

  • Soviet Union

    Soviet Union
    Hitler invades the Soviet Union

  • Pact

    Pact
    Germany and the Soviet Union signed a pact never to attack each other.

  • Luftwaffe

    Luftwaffe
    German Luftwaffe roar over Poland, raining bombs on military bases, airfields, railroads, and cities. AT the same time, German tanks raced across the Polish countryside.

  • Cash-and-Carry

    Cash-and-Carry
    Roosevelt persuades congress to pass a "Cash-and-carry" provision that allowed warring nations to buy U.S. arms as long as they paid cash and transported them in their own ships.

  • Invasion of Denmark and Norway

    Invasion of Denmark and Norway
    Hitler launches surprise invasion of Denmark and Norway.