Prelude to WW2

By matthew.mcdonaldd

  • Hitler joins German Workers Party

  • Hitler becomes leader of German Workers Party (renames it to National German Workers Party)

  • Beer Hall Putsch

  • Hitler is arrested, put on trial, and jailed

  • Manchurian Crisis

  • Hitler was invited to become chancellor

  • The Reichstag Fire

  • The Enabling Act

  • The Night of the Long Knives

  • President Hindenburg dies, leaving Hitler as sole leader

  • Abyssinian Crisis

  • Period: to

    German Expansion

  • Germany reoccupies the Saar Valley and Rhineland

  • Germany takes over Sudetenland

  • Anschluss

  • The Munich Pact

  • German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

  • Germany invades Poland