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Hitler's Great Speech
Hitler delivers greatest "peace" speech to Reichstag. Claims he does not want to conquer any other nations. "Germany needs peace and desires peace." The speech drastically raised Germany's moral. -
The Anschluss
The Anschluss, known for the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. Austrians were very pleased by this, but it led to descrimination against Austrian jews. -
The Munich Conference
Hitler met with representatives of the heads of state from France, the United Kingdom, and Italy.An agreement was reached that Hitler could annex the Sudetenland provided he promised not to invade anywhere else. All four countries signed the agreement. -
The Czech Crisis
The Czech frontier guards left their posts and German troops occupied the Sudetenland. Very shortly afterwards, Polish and Hungarian troops took areas of Czechoslovakia which contained a majority of Poles and Magyars. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
on 23 August 1939, Hitler made the Nazi-Soviet Pact with Stalin - a promise not to go to war with each other and a promise to invade Poland and split it between them. -
Danzig
At the end of the first world war, Danzing was taken from German control and made a free city.on the eve of the German invasion of Poland a German war ship arrived in Danzing harbor. this ship fired on Pro Polish positions in the city as the German invasion happened on Poland. -
Poland, Britain, France
3 September 1939 the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, announced that unless Germany agreed to withdraw their recent aggression against Poland, ‘a state of war would exist between the two countries.’ A few hours after Britain declared war on Germany, France followed. -
Phony War or Bore War (Sept 3rd, 1939 - May 10th, 1940)
War was declared (by Britain on Germany) on Sept. 3, 1939. Immediately, the air raid sirens sounded. It was a false alarm. For the next six months, nothing happened. This was the Phony War. it ended when Germany invaded France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxemburg on May 10, 1940. -
Poland fell
Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. -
Evacuation at Dunkirk
On May 10th, the Germans attacked the Netherlands for 3 days. On the 14th, the Dutch army had surrendered. -
Invasion of France and the Maginot Line
Between 26 May and 4 June - a period during which Hitler halted the advance of his troops on Dunkirk - 200,000 British and 140,000 French troops were evacuated to England. The Maginot Line was a line of undergound defensive fortifications along the border of France with Germany and Belgium. -
Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg means "lightning war". Blitzkrieg was first used by the Germans in World War Two and was a tactic based on speed and surprise and needed a military force to be based around light tank units supported by planes and infantry. -
France surrendered
The french was undersieged by Germany's invasion and as a result, the goverment of France surrendered. The invasion only lasted 7 weeks. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the German air force's attempt to gain air superiority over the RAF from July to September 1940. As a result, Germany failed.
