Prologue To World War 2

German troop entering the demilitarized zone of Rhineland

     World war 2 started on 1 September 1939, when Hitler invaded Poland. Poland wasn't Hitler first demand. Before he invade Poland he had first annexed both Austria and Czechoslovakia. It first started when Hitler attempt to rebuild the German army. It was an secret act, yet even before he reign he had write in the Mein Kampf that he will abolish the treaty. On 1935 Hitler openly abolish the treaty. He make an agreement with the British that the German Navy force may expanded  up to 35% of the British Navy.

U-Boat Type IA, one of the earliest U-Boat. The Versailles Treaty prohibit the German Navy the possession of submarine. Germany however had been secretly developing submarines by producing it for other country navy.

   After the rearmament act Hitler claim back the demilitarized zone of Rhineland(1936). Then he annex Austria into Germany. His last tolerated action was the annexation of Czechoslovakia. At first he claimed the Sudetenland, a Czechoslovakia territory it was a region with a major population of German descendants during 1938.

Sudetenland German Greeted German Soldiers

   During the Munich Conference, the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain agree that Hitler may annexed Sudetenland. The reason the British did this is to prevent Hitler from waging war. In return, Hitler promised not to make any further territorial demand in Europe.

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain shake hands with Hitler in the Munich conference

     The act of annexing Czechoslovakia territory is however, was done not only by Germany. Both Poland and Hungary also annexed a part of the Czech territory. On 14 March 1939 Slovakia separate itself from the Czech in 14 March 1939 forming the Slovak Republic, a client state of Nazi Germany. The next day the German Army invade the rest of Czechoslovakia.
    Its president meet Hitler and get a heart attack after told that if the Czech army does not surrendered they will bomb Prague. As a result the Czech president  Emil Hácha decided to accept Germany occupation of the rest of Czechoslovakia. That same day the Czech region of Carpathian Ruthenia declared independence and was immediately annexed by Hungary.

German troop entered Prague

   

  Czechoslovakia was however the last time the Western Allies accept Hitler demand. A few months after that Hitler invasion of Poland will trigger the most devastating conflict in the twentieth century.