How much of Europe did the Nazis and other Axis powers occupy ?
– March 7, 1936: Germans march into the Rhineland, violating the Versailles Treaty. – March 12, 1938: Germany annexes Austria. – March 15, 1939: Germany occupies Czechoslovakia. – September, 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland; World War II begins. – April – May 1940: Germany invades Denmark and Norway, The Netherlands, France, Belgium and Luxembourg. – September 29 -30, 1941: More than 33,000 Jews are executed at Babi Yar, near Kiev in the Ukraine, by the Einsatzgruppen special forces. – June 22, 1941: Germans attack Russia, Nazi SS special forces in Belorussia and Ukraine for killing of Jews. – December 11, 1941: Germany declares war on the United States.
