What countries did Germany take over and then invade in World War 2?

Answer 1

Prior to the outbreak of World War 2:

• The Sudeten region(s) of Czechoslovakia (38)
• Austria (38)
• The rest of Bohemia and Moravia (39)

The Germans invaded during the course of WW2 :

• Poland
• Denmark
• Norway
• Luxembourg
• Belgium
• Holland
• France (partial)
• Monaco
• Yugoslavia and Greece (with the help of Italy)
• Lithuania
• Danzig
• Latvia
• Estonia
• The Soviet Union (partial).

Germany's allies in Europe were:

• Italy
• Romania
• Bulgaria
• Hungary
• Croatia
• Slovakia (formerly a part of Czechoslovakia)
• Finland

The Czech part of Czechoslovakia was a German protectorate (colony) called Bohemia and Moravia having been taken over in 1938 after the Munich Conference.

The neutral countries of Europe were:

• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Liechtenstein
• Turkey
• San Marino
• Andorra
• Portugal
• Ireland

The Germans wanted Lebensraum (living space) for their German people so they tried to regain the land they lost after WWI due to the Rhineland being demilitarized and the Treaty of Versailles.

Answer 2

During World War II, Germany annexed:

Part of Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland)

Austria

Germany occupied:

Bohemia (part of Czechoslovakia)

Poland

Northern and Western France

Southern France (Vichy France)--limited autonomy

Latvia

Lithuania

Estonia

western Russia

Belarus

Ukraine

Norway

Denmark

Netherlands

Luxembourg

Belgium

The following countries were not technically occupied but were satellite states of Nazi Germany's:

Slovakia

Hungary

Romania

Yugoslavia

Bulgaria

Greece

Italy was a member of the Axis Alliance with Germany, and German troups occupied northern Italy when Italy surrendered.

Finland was forced to ally with Nazi Germany because the Soviet Union (Russia) invaded Finland in an effort to take Finland over, as the Soviet Union had done to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, etc.

Spain was technically neutral but provided military assistance to Nazi Germany.

Answer 3

World War II, or the Second World War[1] (often abbreviated WWII or WW2), was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. The war involved the mobilization of over 100 million military personnel, making it the most widespread war in history. In a state of "total war", the major participants placed their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Over seventy million people, the majority of whom were civilians, were killed, making it the deadliest conflict in human history.

The start of the war is generally held to be September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by most of the countries in the British Empire and Commonwealth, and by France. Subsequently, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east side. Many countries were already at war before this date, such as Ethiopia and Italy in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War and Nationalist China and Japan in the Second Sino-Japanese War, and many who were not initially involved joined the war later, as a result of events such as the German invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa), and the attacks on Pearl Harbor and British colonies and subsequent declarations of war on Japan by Dutch[2] and British Commonwealth.[3]

In 1945 the war ended in a victory for the Allies. The Soviet Union and the United States subsequently emerged as the world's superpowers, setting the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next 46 years. The United Nations was formed in the hope of preventing another such conflict. The acceptance of the principle of self-determination accelerated decolonization movements in Asia and Africa, while Western Europe itself began moving toward integration.

Answer 4

In World War 1 Germany invaded:

• Belgium
• Luxembourg
• France
• Russian Empire

World War 2

Countries invaded by Germany during World War 2:

1. Poland (1939)
2. Denmark (1940)
3. Norway (1940)
4. Belgium (1940)
5. The Netherlands (aka Holland) - 1940
6. Luxembourg (1940)
7. France (1940)
8. The Channel Islands (UK dependencies) - 1940
9. Greece (1941)
10. Yugoslavia (Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia) - 1941.
11. Soviet Union (Russia - part only, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) -1941
12. Egypt (- part only) 1942