Battle of Western Desert
Hitler offers Mussolini help after Italy's immanent defeat
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
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Adolf Hitler Biography and Timeline — Page 28
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1941
Sunflower
German units disembark for Tripoli
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Pact between Germany, Italy, Japan and Yugoslavia
Hitler applies pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Tripartite Pact
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Tripartite Pact
Hitler fails to persuade the Yugoslav Prime Minister, Dragisa Cvetkovic, to join the Axis. Hitler applies pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Tripartite Pact
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Russia
German Army Units cross the Danube from Rumania & take up positions in Bulgaria
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Marita
German Army units cross the Danube & take up positions in Bulgaria
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Operation Barbarossa
German Army Units cross the Danube from Romania & take up positions in Bulgaria
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Alliance Adolf Hitler and Tripartite Pact
Bulgaria joins the Tripartite Pact
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Pact between Germany, Italy, Japan and Bulgaria
Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Tripartite Pact
Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Hitler demands from Prince Paul that German troops pass through Yugoslavia to
Hitler demands from Prince Paul that German troops pass through Yugoslavia to Greece
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Operation Barbarossa
Paul of Yugoslavia is invited to the Berghof & offered Salonika for German support
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Tripartite Pact
Hitler applies pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Tripartite Pact
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Alliance Tripartite Pact
Yugoslavia signs the Tripartite Pact
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Yugoslavia
Hitler put pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Tripartite Pact. The Regent, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, succumbed to this pressure
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Pact between Germany, Italy, Japan and Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia signs the Tripartite Pact
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Tripartite Pact
Hitler put pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Tripartite Pact. The Regent, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, succumbed to this pressure
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Tripartite Pact
In front of Hitler & Ribbentrop Cvetkovic signs Yugoslavia to the Tripartite Pact
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Coup
Orders invasion after a pro-Allied coup in Belgrade. Delays invasion by 4 weeks to invade Yugoslavia after an Allied coup in Belgrade
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Coup
Summons chiefs to the Chancellery saying the Belgrade coup endangered Barbarossa. Delayed up to 4 weeks so Yugoslavia can be invaded after a pro-Allied coup in Belgrade
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Coup
A coup is launched in Yugoslavia by anti-Prince Paul, Serbian military officers, and the Regent was replaced on the throne by King Peter II of Yugoslavia.
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Coup
Hitler takes the Yugoslav coup as a personal insult, and was so angered that he was determined "without waiting for possible declarations of loyalty of the new Government to destroy Yugoslavia militarily and as a nation".
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Coup
Summons chiefs to the Chancellery saying the Belgrade coup endangered Barbarossa.
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Russia
Delays invasion by 4 weeks to invade Yugoslavia after an Allied coup in Belgrade
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Yugoslavia
Orders invasion after a pro-Allied coup in Belgrade. Delays invasion by 4 weeks to invade Yugoslavia after an Allied coup in Belgrade
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Yugoslavia
Orders Goering to "destroy Belgrade"
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Yugoslavia
A coup is launched in Yugoslavia by anti-Prince Paul, Serbian military officers, and the Regent was replaced on the throne by King Peter II of Yugoslavia.
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Yugoslavia
Hitler takes the Yugoslav coup as a personal insult, and was so angered that he was determined "without waiting for possible declarations of loyalty of the new Government to destroy Yugoslavia militarily and as a nation".
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Yugoslavia
Summons chiefs to the Chancellery saying the Belgrade coup endangered Barbarossa.
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Operation Barbarossa
Summons chiefs to the Chancellery saying the Belgrade coup endangered Barbarossa. Delayed up to 4 weeks so Yugoslavia can be invaded after a pro-Allied coup in Belgrade
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Siege of Belgrade
Orders Goering to "destroy Belgrade"
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Russia
At a General Staff meeting says Germany must destroy the Red Army & the Soviet State
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Operation Barbarossa
At a General Staff meeting orders destruction of the Red Army & the Soviet State
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Red Army
At a General Staff meeting says Germany must destroy the Red Army & the Soviet State. At a General Staff meeting orders destruction of the Red Army & the Soviet State
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Russia
The entire urban population of the invaded land was to be starved to death, thus creating an agricultural surplus to feed Germany and allowing the urban populations replacement by a German upper class
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was to combine a northern assault towards Leningrad, a symbolic capturing of Moscow, and an economic strategy of seizing oil fields in the south beyond Ukraine. Hitler repeated his order: "Leningrad first, the Donetsk Basin second, Moscow third"
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Bombing of Belgrade
Starting on April 6, 1941, Axis armies invaded from all sides and the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) bombed Belgrade. Luftflotte Four of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe), with a strength of seven Combat Formations (Kampfgruppen) had been committed to the campaign in the Balkans
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Coup
After the unexpected March 27 coup against the Yugoslav Government, orders for the future campaign in Yugoslavia are drafted, as well as changes to the plan for the attack on Greece
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Greece
The German & Italian Armies take up their positions for the invasion of Yugoslavia & Greece. After the unexpected March 27 coup against the Yugoslav Government, orders for the future campaign in Yugoslavia are drafted, as well as changes to the plan for the attack on Greece
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Yugoslavia
Hitler gives the order for the Axis powers to invade Yugoslavia. After the unexpected March 27 coup against the Yugoslav Government, orders for the future campaign in Yugoslavia are drafted, as well as changes to the plan for the attack on Greece
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Records, sources and methodology
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