World War II |
| 1939 |
| Europe |
| Asia |
| Hitler started sending Jews, mentally ill and handicapped people, and political enemies to concentration camps to be worked to death |
| Adolf Hitler 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945 |
| He was elected to the position of Chancellor of Germany on 30 January, 1933. He resisted all attempts by his opponents to gain a majority in the german parliament. He convinced the president to desolve parliament after an independent communist was found at the site of a large fire in the parliament building. When the parliamnet was reinstated, the Nazi party passed a law that made Hitler a legal dictator. This was the beginning of Nazi Germany |
| On September 1, Germany and Slovakia made the first invasion of world war II. They invaded Poland. On September 17, the Soviets launched their own invasion. |
| Poland |
| By early October, Poland was divided among Germany, the Soviet Union, Lithuania and Slovakia. Despite this, Poland never officially surrendered and continued to fight outside their own border |
| Baltic States |
| The Soviet Union forced the Baltic countries to allow it to station Soviet troops in their countries under pacts of "mutual assistance." When Finland rejected this they were invaded in November. The conflict ended in March of 1940 with the Finnish giving concessions such as the loss of the industries in southern Finland. |
| obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken. |