How Did Hitler Invade Poland

September 1st, 1939; Hitler and his army invade poland and trigger the second world war. Poland couldn’t defend itself as it’s army wasn’t powerful enough. Hitler's early army wasn’t actually that powerful but poland’s was way worse so defeating them was easy and Hitler thought he had the best army. Because of that he invaded much more countries and even tried Russia. On May 10th 1940 he decided to go for western Europe and took them in a pretty small time. France, Belgium and the Netherlands were all Hitler’s property as of July 1940. That was the month of which Allied and remaining French soldiers surrendered and evacuated through Dunkirk, northern France.

The evacuation wasn’t pretty and photos archived of the event show the number of

On June 18, 1940 he appeared on a BBC News broadcast and gave a speech directed at the people of France. His speech was very inspiring and caused French people in France to retaliate. On June 28 the Free French Movement was born and the Charles De Gaulle was appointed to as leader. The Free French was a Nazi-Resistance regime in France and De Gaulle started to make an army. French men in Britain, French army men that fled and other people came together to make an army to attack the Nazis and the Schutzstaffel. In the late 1940s french colonies in Africa such as Cameroon, chad and small french colonies in india and french islands in the Pacific were coming together to form the Free French Army. Their first expedition to capture a naval base in Vichy held West Africa failed as they were outnumbered. However, in 1941 the Free French Army took part in assaults led by Britain in Middle east against Italy and Vichy forces. Later that year De Gaulle created the French National Committee and was a French Government operating mostly in Britain. In 1942 a Anti-German movement was created in france and groups fighting for different purposes started to attack the Nazis. These groups were fighting for a lot of other things such as communism, allied dominance, some were fighting for their city, for De Gaulle etc. These groups weren’t necessarily together. One of De Gaulle important jobs wa to unify all these groups and create one superior army in France. In 1943 most of the groups were unified and the Free French Army was large. De Gaulle sent some troops to help out America and Canada to capture Africa as he was trying to have better connections with the Allies. When the allied French invasion was over De Gaulle was welcome by a large crowd and was seen as the leader of France. But De Gaulle didn’t want that and resigned very soon. Nowadays De