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The Austrian Anschluss
Hitler had wanted all German speaking countries a part of Germany. He wanted to reunite Germany and Austria The chanceleour of Austria, Dollfuss was coming down on socialists and nazis, he banned the nazi party in 1934. Hitler had told the Austrian Nazis to cause chaos, this led to overthrowing the goverment and the chanceulour was murdered, The new chanceleour worked with Hitler as much as possible. Result: seven million people to Germany ,+100,000 army,Gained resources -
The Munich Confrence
http://www.toytowngermany.com/wiki/Munich_Conference_1938Hitler alread had taken over Austria the year before. He wanted to now take over sudetenland an importand piece of Czecklovocia .On September 29 1938 He had met with France Britian and Italy and said he would only take sudetenland, but he lied and took the whole czecslovocia.This was where they had realised Germany could not be trusted -
The Nazi Soviet Pact
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/nazisovietpactrev2.shtmlIn April 1939, Soviet Union met to form an alliance to protect Poland. But by August, Russia had swapped sides and sided with Germany. The pact was that Poland would be divided and neither of each other would go to war with each other. IT was a Secret that Poland would be divided with the two Countries. Stalin would have have to go to war at the time,m if he Alianced with Britian and France. But he got half of Poland and no war for him yet. -
Germany invades Poland
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-invades-polandGerman forces had bombed Poland by air and also by ground, Ultimately this is the official start of world war 2, Germany regains their land back. This was a primer on how hitler would wage war. Later would be known as blitzkrieg strategy. Also, Poland had miscalculate everything early, were very under equipped and tried using old tactics against German -
Danzig
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005438Germany lost Danzig, an important city after World war 1. The league of nations made land, military and Other German affairs during the treaty of versailles. Hitler had all intention to turn it over. Germany demanded Danzig in preparation of war with Poland. Danzig was an important railroad hub that went through Germany and poland. There was also a big concentration c -
Fall Of France
May 1940, Germany had been taking over most of europe for the past 9 months, Even though Britain and France declared war, there was little to no fighting between. In the time period, Germany planned to go through the Ardennes Forest, passing the defensive French Maginot line and the advance would threaten the troops up north. Just four days the Germans had broke through the d-line. A month later France had been taken over, the allies tried bombing but little damage -
Dunkirk Evacuation
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dunkirk-evacuation-endsThe evacuation helped over 300,000 soldiers leave France when it was getting invaded The evacuation was called operation Dynamo. -
Fall of France Extended
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1057286.shtml](<a href='http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1057286.shtml) ' >France</a> To evacuate, France had went through Belgium, then Holland. Hitler had put a pause to the fighting. During the pause 340,000 french troops from dunkirk and 200,000 from other ports were evacuated. By june 5, The Naizs were dominating most of France, General Maxime Weygan told the French Premier ReyNaud that the battle of France had officially been lost. and to move as many civilians out as possible. -
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Battle of Britian
http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/battle-of-britain The battle of Britain was the first giant war campaign. The whole battle was fought in the air. The Germans wanted to show The Brits that their air force was far more superior. With Both the USA and The Soviet Isolated, and the French tooken over Britain fouhht this battle aloneThe German air force had took their attention to the britain isl -
Battle of Britian extended
http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/battle-of-britain
The top of the battle was when The Germans lost 56 planes, Britain only lost 28. During the 12 week battle 1,733 German planes were destroyed while only 916 of Britians were destroyed. The Germans then had postponed the invasion of Britain
