Hitler's rise to power and European occupation

By kimmychicas

  • Hitler joins the nazi party

    Hitler joins the nazi party
    Hitler joins the German Workers’ Party, having been sent to spy on it by the military.

  • The beer hall putsch

    The beer hall putsch
    On November 9th, 1923, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party led a coalition group in an attempt to overthrow the German government. This attempted coup d'état came to be known as the Beer Hall Putsch.

  • Hitler is convicted of treason

    Hitler is convicted of treason
    In Germany, Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in prison for leading the Nazis’ unsuccessful “Beer Hall Putsch” in the German state of Bavaria.

  • Germany joins the league of nations

    Germany joins the league of nations
    Under Stresemann's guidance, the government called off the strike, persuaded the French to leave the Ruhr and even got the rest of the world to allow Germany to join the League of Nations in 1926.

  • Hitler is appointed chancellor

    Hitler is appointed chancellor
    Schleicher is outmanoeuvred by Papen, who persuades Hindenburg than Hitler can be controlled; the latter is made chancellor, with Papen vice-chancellor.

  • Germany invaded austria

    Germany invaded austria
    On March 12, 1938, German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany.

  • Germany invade sudetenland

    Germany invade sudetenland
    he Czech part of Czechoslovakia was subsequently invaded by Germany in March 1939, with a portion being annexed and the remainder turned into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

  • Germany invades Czechoslovakia

    Germany invades Czechoslovakia
    On 15 March 1939, German troops marched into Czechoslovakia. They took over Bohemia, and established a protectorate over Slovakia. Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia was the end of appeasement: It proved that Hitler had been lying at Munich.

  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland
    Nazi leader Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced. On September 3, they declared war on Germany, initiating World War II. To Hitler, the conquest of Poland would bring Lebensraum, or “living space,” for the German people.