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Nazis March in the Rhineland
3 battalions of the German Army were handed a memorandum stating that the German government had "restored the full and unrestricted sovereignty of the Reich in the demiliterized zone of the Rhineland". -
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Road to World War 2
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Anschluss
This was when Austria was annexed into Nazi Germany. With the Anschulss, the German-speaking Republic of Austria ceased to exist as a fully independent state. -
Hitler's March into Czechoslovakia; Allied Powers
Adolf Hitler's army marched into the Sudetenland in Czechchoslovakia, continuing Nazi Germany's aggressive World War 2 offensive. Hitler met with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and states his demand. -
The Hitler-Stalin Pact; Allied Powers
Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact, stunning the world, given their diametrically opposed ideologies. But the dictators were, despite appearances, both playing to their own political needs. -
Start of World War 2; Axis Powers
World War 2 begins as the German invade Poland. They attack Polish army with an overwhelming iforce of 1.5 million troops backed by tactical aircraft in the sky and mobile armor ofn the ground. -
Invading Poland; Allied Powers
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during WWII. After the collapse of the former Polish state, they restablished peace and order. -
Battles in the West; Axis Powers
German fighters accidentally bomb the German city of Freiburg.
German raids on British shipping convoys and military airfields begin. Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Invasion of Iceland by the United Kingdom. -
Axis Power; Germany & France
Germany and France signed an armistice in the forest of Compiègne. The treaty provided that hostilities between the two nations would end six hours after the signing of an armistice treaty between France and Italy, Germany’s axis partner. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa; beginning 22 June 1941, was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War Over the course of the operation, about four million soldiers of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 2,900 km front, the largest invasion in the history of warfare. In addition to troops, Barbarossa used 600,000 motor vehicles and 750,000 horses. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor; Allied Powers
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.
