War+World+II



[|Chapter 14.1 Key Terms]

**Use the map in your text p. 439 to chronicle German aggression. Where did the Nazis go first and what were the results? Make a chronology.**
 * 1933 - Hitler comes to power and promises to restore greatness in Germany.
 * 1933 - Hitler becomes chancellor and begins secretly rebuilding the German army.
 * 1935 - British agreed to a new treaty allowing Germany to build submarines and other warships.
 * 1936 - Militarization of Rhineland (German territory that bordered France) by sending a small armed force. No direct action taken after France and Great Britain complaining.
 * 1938 - Hitler demands that Austrian officials accept annexation by Germany.
 * 1938 - German forces marched into Austria without opposition. Austria was no longer an independent country.
 * 1938 - Munich, Germany: British prime minister Neville Chamberlain and French leader Edouard Daladier agreed to not block Hitler's way into gaining Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. They thought he would stop after this. Czech was going to war with Germany with or without the help of France.

The Axis Powers controlled majority of Europe and Northern Africa by 1941. The countries that remained neutral were Spain, Turkey and Sweden. The Allied controlled territory included the United Kingdom, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and the Soviet Union.
 * How much European territory did the Axis Powers control by 1941?**







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