WWII

Non-Aggression Pact

1934

The German-Polish non-aggression pact was a treaty that was created between the Second Polish republic and Nazi Germany. It stipulated the agreement of both countries to put an end to their problems by creating bilateral negotiations.

Knight of the long Knives

1934

Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization's leaders, including Ernst Röhm.

Appeasement (Chamberlain)

1938

Neville Chamberlain was the British prime minister who believed in appeasement. In 1938, Germans living in the border areas of Czechoslovakia started to demand a union with Hitler's Germany. The Czechs refused and Hitler threatened war.

Kristallnacht

1938

Hitler and the Nazis implemented their so-called “Final Solution” to the what they referred to as the “Jewish problem,” and carried out the systematic murder of some 6 million European Jews in what came to be known as the Holocaust.