World War II

By Cass Meyers

  • Hitler

    Hitler
    Hitler began to defy the Treaty of Versailles that had ended World War I. He announced would build a new air force and begin a military draft.

  • Anschluss

    Anschluss
    Hitler sent troops into Austria and announced the unification of Austria and Germany.

  • Czechoslovakia

    Czechoslovakia
    Hitler and Germany claim the Sudetenland, an area of Czechoslovakia with a large German-speaking population.

  • Munich Conference

    Munich Conference
    Britain, France and Germany made concessions in exchange for peace. The appeasement plan failed when Germany sent troops into Czechoslovakia and divided the country, even after czach. gave up the Sudetenland.

  • Danzig

    Danzig
    Hitler demanded Poland he wanted control over the city of Danzig. Hitler ordered the Germany army to invade Poland

  • Nazi-Soviet Pact

    Nazi-Soviet Pact
    German officals made an nonaggression pact with the USSR. Stalin believed the best way to protect the USSR was to turn the capitalist nations agsint each other.

  • Poland, Britain, France

    Poland, Britain, France
    Germany invaded Poland, two days later, Britain and France declared war on Germany. World War II had begun.

  • Blitzkrieg

    Blitzkrieg
    It is a type of warfare. Blitzkrieg used large numbers of massed tanks to break through and rapidly encircle enemy positions. One of the first Blitzkrieg attacks were on the Polish cpatial of Warsaw.

  • Poland Fell

    Poland Fell
    Due to numerous Blitzkrieg attacks, Poland fell to the Germans

  • Phoney War

    Phoney War
    The British had sent troops to France, and bothe countries remianed on the defensive, waiting for the Germans to attack.

  • Invasion of France

    Invasion of France
    The Germans stormed through Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. The Germans then went around the French defensive line called the "Maginot Line" and easily invaded the France

  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    Air battle between the Germans and British. Bombs fell on Geman capital and British captial. Germany lost 1,733 aircrafts and British lost 915 aircrafts

  • Evacuation at Dunkirk

    Evacuation at Dunkirk
    Britain and France were evacuting troops to save them but the Germans captured all the ports but one, Dunkirk in northern France near the Belgain border. An estimated 338,000 troops were saved.

  • French Surrender

    French Surrender
    Germany had occupied much of northern France and its Atlantic coastline