September 1,1939: German invasion of Poland
On September 1, 1939 German troops invaded Poland on three fronts; East Prussia in the north, Germany in the west and Slovakia in the south. Germany had 2600 tanks against the Polish 180, and over 2000 aircraft against the Polish 420. Their "Blitzkrieg," tactics of war first caught the Poles off guard. German armored columns burst through war saw which wan bombed on September 25, 1939. With in a few days western Poland became a Reich Protectorate. Finally on September 17, 1939 Soviet Union invaded Poland from the East, and by the end of the month Poland had been partitioned between Germany and the USSR.
The invasion of Poland is significant in World War two since it started the big war, which engulfed every country in the world, took millions of lives, and caused loss of immeasurable wealth. If Germany had not invaded Poland, the Soviet Union wouldn't have ventured into the war, and it wouldn't have started the chain of......
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