Germans (Hitler) and Poland were fighting over the land Danzig (Gdansk).
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1933 Mar 6, Poland occupied free city Danzig (Gdansk).
1934 Jan 26, Germany signed a 10-year non-aggression pact with Poland, breaking the French alliance system.
1935 Aug 7, In Danzig (Gdansk) 60% of voters agreed to Nazism
1938 Nov 26, Poland renewed a non-aggression pact with the USSR to protect against a German invasion.
1939 Mar 21, Nazi Germany demanded Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland.
1939 Mar 31, Britain and France agreed to support Poland if Germany threatened to invade. Seven French islands were annexed by Japan.
1939 Apr 6, Great Britain and Poland signed a military pact.
1939 Apr 28, Hitler claimed the German-Polish non-attack treaty to be still in effect.
1939 May 23, Hitler proclaimed he wants to move into Poland.
1939 Aug 23, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav M. Molotov signed a Treaty of Non-Aggression, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact freeing Hitler to invade Poland and Stalin to invade Finland. Secret protocols, made public years later, were added that assigned Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Bessarabia to be within the Soviet sphere of influence. Poland was partitioned along the rivers Narev, Vistula and San. Germany retained Lithuania enlarged by the inclusion of Vilnius. Just days after the signing, Germany invaded Poland, and by the end of September, both powers had claimed sections of Poland.
1939 Aug 25, Britain and France signed a treaty with Poland promising military assistance should the Germans invade.
1939 Aug 27, Nazi Germany demanded Danzig and Polish corridor.
1939 Aug 31, There was a staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz by Nazis dressed as Poles to "provoke" war, an excuse for Germany to invade Poland the next day to start World War II.
1939 Sep, 1, 4:40 a.m.,
World War II began. The Germans attacked Poland with their strategy of Blitzkrieg, or lightning war. The war started at dawn with salvos from the cruiser Schleswig-Holstein at the Polish garrison in (Danzig) Gdansk.
1939 Sep 4, German troops stormed into Danzig (Gdansk).
1939 Sep 8, Gen. Von Reichenau's panzer division reached the suburbs of Warsaw.
1939 Sep 9, Nazi army reached Warsaw.
1939 Sep 15, The Polish submarine Orzel arrived in Tallinn, Estonia, after escaping the German invasion of Poland.
1939 Sep 17, The Soviet Union attacked Poland, more than two weeks after Nazi Germany launched its assault. They took 217,000 Poles prisoner and occupied eastern Poland within a week with losses of 737 dead and 2,000 wounded. The Polish submarine Orzel escaped from internment and went on to fight the Germans against long odds.
1939 Sep 27, Germany occupied Warsaw. Poland surrendered after 19 days of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Poland had endured a brutal 3 day bombing campaign by the German Luftwaffe.
