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January 1934, Hitler forms non-aggression pact with Poland

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January 1934, Hitler forms non-aggression pact with Poland

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Hitler forms non-aggression pact with Poland in order to appear committed to non-violence. Weakens France's security system also makes them look foolish for worrying about German attacks in 1933. Hitler didn't yet feel ready to challenge Poland.

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Austrian Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Dolfuss in an attempted takeover. Mussolini sends troops to the Brenner pass which prevents it. Hitler claims no responsibility.

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Vote is 90% to return to Germany. Hitlers first legal regain of territory. Major German moral and coal boost.

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9 March, 1935 Hitler announces expansion of German air force 

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9 March, 1935 Hitler announces expansion of German air force 

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A week after he announces Germany will introduce conscription to build up an army of 750,000.
Bringing back militaristic pride and force

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June 1935 Germany makes naval agreement with Britain

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June 1935 Germany makes naval agreement with Britain

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Limits Germany's navy to 35% of Britains. More than allowed in the treaty of versailles and made without French agreement to drive a wedge between the two. Breaks the stress front against Germany. Hitler hopes it will lead to border agreement later on with Britain.

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October 1935, Mussolini Invades Abyssinia 

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October 1935, Mussolini Invades Abyssinia 

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Shows the total feebleness of the League, boosts Hitlers confidence that he could do the same. Encourages him to be more assertive

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7 March 1936, Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland

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7 March 1936, Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland

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Hitler, against the advise of his generals, marched onto the Rhineland with 14,000 troops and 22,000 local police, gambling that he would not be opposed by the French or the British. The gamble was successful. 98.8% of the German electorate approved of Hitler's actions. Remilitarization of the Rhineland emboldened Hitler (and his image), and delegitimized the Treaty of Versailles.

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27 July 1936 Helping out with the Spanish Civil War

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27 July 1936 Helping out with the Spanish Civil War

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Germany begins to send military help to right-wing rebel nationalists in Spanish Civil War
Used to test out new artillery equipment, and air crafts (e.g. the Luftwaffe)
Bringing back militaristic pride and allowed Germany to gain new allies

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19 October 1936, Goering put in charge of 4 year economic plan

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19 October 1936, Goering put in charge of 4 year economic plan

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October 1933 Hitler withdrew from the disarmament conference

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October 1933 Hitler withdrew from the disarmament conference

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Demonstrated Germany's opposition to the Treaty of V.
Hitler appeared as a peacemaker on the world stage in favor of multilateral disarmament.

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25 November 1936, Axis and Anti-Comintern Pact

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25 November 1936, Axis and Anti-Comintern Pact

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Hitler makes an alliances with Italy and Japan and increases military help in Spain.
Germany gains military experience, economic concessions and closer links with Mussolini.
Gains German alliance and now has other nations to support both economically and militaristically.

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Hitler tells his generals of the need to increase rearmament to prepare for major war in mid 1940s

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February to March 1938, Anschluss with Austria

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February to March 1938, Anschluss with Austria

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Hitler pressures Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg into including Germany in the Austrian government. A plebiscite is called on Anschluss, but Hitler also pressures the government into postponing this until after German invasion. On March 11, the German army invades Austria, and on March 13, they form an Anschluss. The German invasion was well received by Austrian crowds, but there was some anxiety inn Germany over the looming threat of war.

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May/September 1938 - March 1939, the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia (Munich Conference)

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May/September 1938 - March 1939, the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia (Munich Conference)

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May 1938: Hitler encourages Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia to cause unrest. Czech government prepares for war.
29-30 September 1939: the Munich Conference with Germany, Italy, France, Britain grants Germany the Sudetenland
1-10 September 1939: Germany takes the Sudetenland
15 March 1939: Hitler occupies the rest of Czechoslovakia
Through this Germany gains major military and economic resources and increases Hitler's confidence, and domestic confidence.

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Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world with signing the Nazi-Soviet Pact, ensuring that Russia would not invade Germany on the Eastern front, it also allowed the USSR to occupy parts of Poland, Latvia and Estonia once Germany had invaded and won the war.

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Hitler and Mussolini agree to not attack each other if a war breakout, the final stage of he Rome-Berlin axis.

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April 3 1939, Hitler draws plans to invade Poland

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April 3 1939, Hitler draws plans to invade Poland

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Hitler's next target was to be Poland, wherein he claimed Germans were being mistreated. He demanded the return oof Danzig, which had a 95% German population, and a rail road route through the corridor to East Prussia. Hitler, confident Britain wouldn't intervene, invades Poland on the first of September 1939. 2 days later, Britain and France declared war on Germany, proving Hitler wrong. Despite this, nothing could be done for Poland as the USSR invaded from the East, and soon the country collapsed.

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December 1939, first sea battle, British victory

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December 1939, first sea battle, British victory

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British cruisers defeat a German pocket battleship at the Battle of the River Plate, the first major naval engagement of World War II

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Norway falls two weeks later

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10 May 1940, Churchill becomes Prime Minister

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10 May 1940, Churchill becomes Prime Minister

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10 May 1940, invasion of Belgium and the Netherlands 

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10 May 1940, invasion of Belgium and the Netherlands 

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Both countries depended on small armies which had littler artillery and air support and their defensive systems were ineffective. The Netherlands fell in five days, Belgium fell in eighteen.

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May 26- June 4th 1940, British troops evacuate Dunkirk

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May 26- June 4th 1940, British troops evacuate Dunkirk

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The trapped British army evacuates to England from Dunkirk, France, surviving to fight another day.

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ineffective and evaded Maginot lie, pessimistic apathetic French attitude.
Germany occupied the north and west coast, and a puppet VICHY government on the unoccupied south.
However, Hitler delayed his advance on Dunkirk by two days, allowing over 300,000 troops to be evacuated to Britain.

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19 July 1940 Trying to make peace with Britain

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19 July 1940 Trying to make peace with Britain

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Hitler hesitantly offered Britain peace in a speech to the Reichstag when he appealed to the 'reason and common sense of Britain.' No compromise was acceptable to Churchill, so Hitler ordered Operation Sealion, invasion of Britain.

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Goering tried to establish air supremacy over the Channel Ports, but the Luftwaffe suffered heavy losses and Hitler postponed Sealion.
The British victory was won because of a technically stronger superior aeroplane, the Spitfire, and the increased used of radar.

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in order to not admit the new radar technology, the British Ministry provided another reason for their success: carrots

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7 September 1940, attack on British cities

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7 September 1940, attack on British cities

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Hitler switched his aerial attacks from Britain's airfields to her cities, to try and break civilian morale.
However, although great damage was done, morale held up and the airfields gained from the reprieve.

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September 22 1940, Tripartite pact signed

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September 22 1940, Tripartite pact signed

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Alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan

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Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria are forced to become Nazi Allies, in preparation for USSR invasion

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February 1941-1943, aid of Italy and defeat in North Africa

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February 1941-1943, aid of Italy and defeat in North Africa

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Mussolini attacked British troops in Northern Africa in September of the previous year, as well as Greece. However he suffered setbacks and needed help. In February 1941, Hitler sent troops to Northern Africa to aid Italy and temporarily turn the tide of the war. However, after the Anglo-Americans landed in Algeria in November of 1942, things became dire for the Nazis. In May of 1953, 250,000 Italians and Nazis surrendered.

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March 1941, Hitler responds to and attacks Yugoslavia

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March 1941, Hitler responds to and attacks Yugoslavia

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In March, he responded to a Yugoslavian coup, which ultimately turned into a one month attack. He also launched an attack on Greece. Yugoslavia fell in 11 days, Greece in 15. Though these were successes, they exhausted German supplies and left them unprepared for their invasion of the USSR.

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22 June 1941-November 1942, Hitler invades the USSR

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22 June 1941-November 1942, Hitler invades the USSR

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Originally planned to be one month prior, Hitler delayed the invasion to respond to problems Italy was facing in North Africa, and to attack Yugoslavia and Greece. The delay was fatal, as it pushed the invasion into winter, and German troops, already ill prepared due to all the other problems they faced in that month, were in no shape to travel and fight during the winter. After suffering a major defeat at Stalingrad ini November of 1942, the tide began to turn against Germany.

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USA really starts to get involved in the war

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December 1941, Germany declares war on USA

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December 1941, Germany declares war on USA

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After the Japanese attacked the Americans at Pearl Harbor on December 7th and declared war, due to their alliance with Japan, Germany declared war on the USA. This was not a good thing for Germany and the war on the western front as the USA was a large contributor for the allies and would bring a lot more men and munitions to west for the allies.

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June 1942, combined German and Italian troops invade Egypt

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June 1942, combined German and Italian troops invade Egypt

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Hitler thinks the med isn't a priority and doesn't take v important British naval base at Malta. Poor move

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General Rommel's combined Italian and German troops invade Egypt. Hitler sees the mediterranean as a secondary consideration and does not try to occupy the crucial British naval base of Malta.

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September 1942, Axis retreat out of North Africa.

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September 1942, Axis retreat out of North Africa.

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Following major furl shortages and the British counter attack at El Alamein, German forces retreat

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November 1942 Anglo-American landing in Algeria

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November 1942 Anglo-American landing in Algeria

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They make major advances. In May 1943 250,000 Germans and Italians surrender.

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May 1943, first major allied bombing of Germany

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May 1943, first major allied bombing of Germany

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Goering had boasted Germany would never be bombed and he was definitely wrong

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The allied invasion began on the night of 9–10 July 1943, and ended on 17 August. The Allies drove Axis air, land and naval forces from the island, opening Mediterranean Sea lanes for allied ship for the first time since 1941. Mussolini was ousted in a popular revolted, allowing the allies to march northward. Hitler canceled a major offensive at Kursk after only a week to divert forces to Italy. The collapse of Italy necessitated German troops replacing the Italians in Italy and the Balkans, resulting in one fifth of the entire German army being diverted from the east to southern Europe.

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By 1944 the Red Army has entered Poland, Romania and Bulgaria.

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By 1944 the Red Army has entered Poland, Romania and Bulgaria.

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On June 6, 1944 the Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. With a huge force of over 150,000 soldiers, the Allies attacked and gained a foothold in France, pushing the Germans towards Paris.

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On the 19th of August 1944 the allies attack Paris, the Germans surrendered the capital on 25 August 1944.

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December 1944 German offensive in Ardennes fails 

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December 1944 German offensive in Ardennes fails 

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The offensive in Ardennes fails with many German casualties.

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December 1944 to January 1945, Battle of the Bulge

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December 1944 to January 1945, Battle of the Bulge

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Lasting 6 weeks from the 16th of December to the 25th of January, the Ardennes Campaign, or the Battle of the Bulge, was the last Nazi campaign of the war, and one of their most brutal defeats. Hitler's goal was to split the Allies as they headed into Germany. The conditions were harsh. The terrain was mostly frigid. Allied troops weren't able to send in their air forces until Christmas Day. The battle ended with 100,000 Germans killed, wounded or missing, versus 89,500 American casualties (deaths, injuries, missing, etc.). The battle was called "the greatest American battle of the war" by Winston Churchill.

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Red Army soldiers from the 322nd Rifle Division arrived at Auschwitz on 27 January 1945 at 15:00. Two hundred and thirty-one Red Army soldiers died in the fighting around Monowitz concentration camp, Birkenau, and Auschwitz I, as well as the towns of Oświęcim and Brzezinka.

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A 50-day-long encirclement by Soviet and forces of the Hungarian capital ended when the city unconditionally surrendered on 13 February 1945. It was a strategic victory for the Allies in their push towards Berlin

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Spring of 1945 Germany faces major offensive

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Spring of 1945 Germany faces major offensive

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Germany faces a major offensive from Soviet troops and Anglo-American forces. Some German leaders try to make peace but Hitler believed in final victory. In March 1945 Hitler blames the Germans for a lack of spirit and issues a scorched earth order which is undermined by Speer.

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On 25 April 1945, the last German troops withdrew from Finnish Lapland and made their way into occupied Norway. On 27 April 1945

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On the 29th of April, the day before Hitler died, Oberstleutnant Schweinitz and Sturmbannführer Wenner signed of surrender document at Caserta.

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His body is burnt to prevent being taken by the soviets.

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British and Canadian forces push back the Germans out of the Dutch capital, liberating the city.

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On the 16th of April 1945, Soviet and allies forces descended on Berlin. The city's garrison surrendered on 2 May but fighting continued in the north-west, west, and south-west of the city until VE Day on 8 May, many German units fought westward so that they could surrender to the Western allies rather than to the Soviets.

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On 5 May 1945, the Czech resistance started the Prague Uprising. The following day, the Soviets launched attack the city. The German forces abandoned the city but were captured by Soviet troops while trying to escape

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Thirty minutes after the fall of Breslau, the remaining German leaders, accepting the inevitable, authorized the complete and total surrender of all German forces.