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The Saar Plebiscite
The Saar was an area taken from Germany in the Treaty of Versailles. IN 1935, the people of the Saar had a vote on whether or not to go back to being a part of Germany. 90% of the Saar's people voted in favour of going back to Germany. -
Rearment of German Military
Hitler announced that he would rearm Germany in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. He also revealed that Germany begun to construct an air force and that they had plans to re-institute conscription and create a German army of over half a million men. -
Reoccupation of Rhineland
Adolf Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles by sending German military forces to the Rhineland. Rhineland is a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany. -
Annexation of Austria
German troops march into Austria to annex the nation for a Third Reich. In early 1938, Austria Nazis conspired for a second time in four years to seize Austrian government forcefully and unite their nation with Nazi Germany. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
During a meeting with Czech President Emil Hacha, Hitler threatened a bomb raiding against Prague, the Czech capital, unless he obtain from Hacha free passage for German troops into Czech borders, which he got. That same day, German troops poured into Bohemia an d Moravia. The To provinces offered no resistance and they were made a protectorate of Germany. That night, Hitler made a triumphant entry into Prague. -
USSR/Nazi Pact
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact. Saying that the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next ten years. With Europe on the brink of another major war, Stalin saw this pact as a way to keep his nation on peaceful terms with Germany, while giving him time to build up the Soviet military. Hitler used this pact to make sure Germany was able to invade Poland unopposed. -
Invasion of Poland
1.5 million German troops invade Poland along its 1,750 mile border with German controlled territory. At the same time, the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields and German Warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in Baltic Sea. Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defense action but Britain and France weren't convinced. On September 3rd, they declared was on Germany, -
Takeover of the Sudetenland & Munich Agreement
In fall of 1939, the Sudetenland was relegated to Germany between Oct. 1st-10th, The Munich Agreement settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy permitted German Annexation of Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia.
