Senty Hungarian Empire dissolved in 1919 Next Hater that was left when the demanded the Sudetenland a part of Czechoslovakia with many German speaking people At first France and Britain promised to protect Czechoslovakia despite the fact that Hitler threatened war Then Mussolini invited British and French leaders to meet with Hitler in the German town of Munich to work out a solution At the Munich Conference in September 1938 British and French leaders seeking to avoid war agreed to hand over the western part of Czechoslovakia to Germany This policy of giving in to the demands of a potential enemy has since become known as appeasement Neville Chamberlain the British Prime Minister returned to London promising his countrymen peace in our time However his policy of appeasement only encouraged Hitler to make further demands Hitler reached the conclusion that Britain and France were weak and would do almost anything to avoid war Kristallnacht from ping point when the Historia from propaganda and discrimination sains k the Nani vemment moved active measures of persecution World opinion was and the United States withdrew its ambassador from Befin in protest November 1938 a German Jewish refugee assassinated a German diplomat in Paris The German government used this event as an excuse to attack Jewish synagogues houses of worship and stores throughout Germany Jews were attacked Jewish businesses were closed and Jewish communities were forced to pay a large fine for the assassination Thousands of Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps So much broken glass fell into the streets that the event became known World War II Begins The German Invasion of Poland The annexation of the Sudetenland left the rest of Czechoslovakia weak and defenseless In March 1939 Hitler persuaded the Slovaks in the east to declare their independence and sent a Clerman army to occupy Prague and what was left of the country Czech leaders surrendered without resistance Hitler also began making new demands on Poland He claimed the Free City of Danzig present day Gdanisk which contained a large number of German speaking residents By now British and French leaders had reached the conclusion that Hitler s goal was the conquest of Europe They therefore resisted his new demands and pledged to protect Poland Hitler responded by negotiating a secret treaty with the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin Under the terms of the Nazi Soviet Pact signed in August 1939 Hitler and Stalin agreed to divide Poland between themselves In September 1939 Germany invaded Poland from the west while the Soviet Union invaded from the east Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany and World War II began in Europe PAGE 254 HIGHLIGHT UNDERLINE KEY EVENTS Blitzkrieg The German army had developed new tactics for waging warfare based on the use of airplanes tanks motorized troop carriers and communications by radio German planes bombed Polish cities and troops from the air German tanks and motorized artillery invaded Polish territory followed by infantry Luxembourg and France German troops avoided the forces During World War I troops had remained stationary in the French chose not to attack Germany and Germany s Western Front remained quiet In April Germany suddenly invaded Denmark and Norway in May the Germans attacked the Netherlands Belgium trenches unable to advance without being mowed down by machine gun fire In this new type of warfare planes tanks strong defensive French barrier known as the Maginot Line by marching through the Ardennes Forest and across Belgium French leaders had expected a German invasion motorized artillery and motorized troop carriers all applications through Belgium but farther north and a large part of of the internal combustion engine were used to make rapid advances The advantage in combat shifted back to the offense Because of the speed of the German advance this new form of warfare became known as Blitzkrieg or lightning warfare The Fall of France and Britain had declared war on Germany but did little to help Poland During the first months of 1940 marched directly west to the coast By June 1940 the their army was trapped when the Germans surprisingly French were forced to surrender A British expeditionary force cornered in the coastal town of Dunkirk withdrew across the English Channel The British sent fishing boats pleasure craft and everything else they could to ferry their soldiers back home Valerie Begl Kristallnacht Place these events in order from 1 first to Last 7 and the year it happened Hungary annexes border areas Germans defeat French army and occupy France Dunkirk evacuation Battle of Britain Germany annexes Austria World War II begins in Europe Eastern Czechoslovakia becomes Slovakia a German satellite