And as soon as Italy joins World War II, you start having all these skirmishes out here between Italy's colonies, and it's kind of where they're ruling colonially, in Libya, and in Egypt where theīritish are essentially in control. And so now Italy, so now Italy is formally in World War II. And so, in June, Italy declares war on the Allies, on Great Britain and France. Italy in the war, Benito Mousselini in the run-up to World War II is getting closer and closer to Adolf Hitler.
Italy, which we've seen before, Italy declares war. And then in June, in June, Italy enters the fray. To what happened in World War I, where that's kind of how Germany gets to France. Low Countries So invades Netherlands, invades Belgium. The Low Countries it's sometimes calledīecause this place, the land in the Netherlands, right over here, is very close to sea level or sometimes even below sea level. Germany invades the Netherlands and Belgum. Denmark and Norway.let me make sure that I spell that right. And so now we are going to enter into 1940.Īnd were going to see that in 19 things only start to accelerate in the Nazis',Īnd, as we'll soon call them, the Axis Powers' favor. Themselves under Stalin's leadership, also invading Poland and laying claim Great Britain declaring war on Germany Followed shortly by the Soviet Union This being said, there were plans drawn up for a German invasion(this is common among countries): Since a lot of Swiss was German, Hitler probably wanted to unify it into Germany through peace like he did with Austria in the Anschluss instead of causing needless German suffering. Most importantly, the Swiss banks were able to help Germany, converting the spoils of war into currency. A great deal of Switzerland spoke German, and indeed, the Swiss supplied the Axis far more than they did the Allies, all while staying neutral. Although Germany could have taken Switzerland if it wanted to, it didn't have a super tactical position (as you said, the Axis circled Switzerland completely), and it very much sympathized with the Germans. The Swiss's wartime strategy mainly involved declaring themselves neutral and then arming the Alps to the teeth to form a deterrent against invasion. Taking Switzerland would have been very inconvenient for Hitler, if not a total mistake.
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