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1936
The Wehrmacht expands from 252,000 to 520,000 men.

1937
The Third Reich annexes Austria.

The Wehrmacht expands to 700,000 men.

Synthetic oil and rubber production increases drastically in Germany.

The Third Reich and the Soviet Union sign a tank development treaty.

1938
The Wehrmacht expands to 1,280,000 men.

Production of the Panzer III and MP38 begins.

The Third Reich occupies the Sudetenland and then proceeds to invade the rest of Czechoslovakia.

Slovakia is set up as a German puppet state.

The Third Reich begins its genocide against Jews with the atrocities committed at Kristallnacht

January - July
The Wehrmacht expands to 2,400,000 men.

Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

August - September
Germany declares war on Poland and invades with 2,000,000 troops, Warsaw fell within 16 days of the declaration of war.

Large swaths of Western Poland are annexed into the Third Reich, with much of central Poland (including Warsaw), being set up as a puppet state, most commonly knows as Generalgouvernement. Whatever was left of Poland in the east was annexed by the Soviet Union.

October - November
Germany declares war on Denmark and invades with 80,000 troops, the Danish government falls in just 8 hours.