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Saturday surprises were bigg announcments that Hitler made, often on the weekends. The announcements were on the weekends because this is when leaders of powerful countries would retreat tp there home country. This was significant because other countries will not be paing attention to Germany.
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This event was significant because this was the first piece of land taken over by the Nazis. Also this is an event that rebeled against the rules of the Treaty of Versailles because that piece of land was set aside as a buffer between Germany, France and Belium.
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Hitler summoned the Prime Minister of Austria to a secret meeting with the only purpose of intimidating the Prime Minister. In the meeting Hitler said that ' Austria must become a part of Greater Germany'. When the prime minister disagreed Hitler gave him three days to change his mind before Germany invades.
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By January 1, 1939 all Jews were required to have a jewish first name. For men the Nazis would add Israel and for women they would add Sarah.
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This is a significant event because Hitler was trying to get the Reichstag to create an enemy of other countries. This will help Hitler when trying to pass laws.
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The Nazi took a group of prisoners from the Gleiwitz concentration camp. After the nazis dressed them in polish army uniforms they were killed. The next morning the German army marched into Poland saying they were retaliating for a Polish attack on Gleiwtz.
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After eigteen days of fighting Germany defeated Poland. After Germany incorrporated central and southern Poland as parts of Germany.
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In the spring of 1940 Germany set there goals on western Europe. By mid april Germany already conquered Denmark and Norway.
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After Germany had conquered other countries in Europe . Germany turned their attention to France and France had fallen very quickly.
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The order to invade Russia was to once and for all destro the ' Jewish-Bolshevik menance'. The German army advanced ito what was then soviet Russia
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After the Japanese bombed pearl Harbor the united states declared war on Japan. The next day The Japanese ambassador asked for Germanys support against the United States.
