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Unification with Austria
Modern-day Austria and Germany have been united at various points in history: their predecessors within the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian-led German Confederation prior to the unification of German states under Prussia in 1871 and, most recently, the Anschluss in 1938 annexed Austria to the Third Reich. -
Hitler Becomes Chancellor
In the hope of creating a stable government the elderly president Hindenburg agreed to the plan. So on the 30th of January 1933 Hitler became chancellor of Germany. -
Re-occupation of the Rhineland
In 1935 Hitler unilaterally canceled the military clauses of the treaty and in March 1936 denounced the locarno pact and began remiliterizing of the Rhineland. -
Munich Agreement
A deal was reached on 29 September 1938, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement. -
Occupation of Czechoslovakia
On 15 March 1939, German troops marched into Czechoslovakia. They took over Bohemia. -
Invasion of Poland and decloration of war with Britain and France
The Invasion of Poland or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland, and alternatively the Poland Campaign or Fall Weiss in Germany. -
Battle of France
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a combat of the Second World War, when the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against the German Air Force attacks from the end of June 1940. -
Attack on Pearl Harbour
On December 7, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the US Naval Base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.