Invasion of Poland
In the fall of 1939 the military force of Germany stormed into Poland's west border and defeated the army of Poland in weeks. During the invasion France and Britain declared war on Germany in a vein attempt to keep them out of Poland. On September 17 16 days after the initial invasion by Germany the Soviet Union dives into the fray invading the eastern border of Poland. Poland's defenses were nothing compared to the combined might of the soviet and German armies encroaching on both sides and on September 27th that same year Warsaw had surrendered and Germany had won against the Polish. This first invasion was the spark that set the world ablaze starting the second world war. After Germany had invaded Poland all the other world powers (excluding the United States of America) started to declare war on Germany or pick sides in the conflict. This was the beginning of the war at least in the European theater of the war. In many ways it was the first action that the rest of the world had deemed beyond the line after Germany's blatant refusal to abide by the treaty of Versailles after the first World War and was what made the rest of the world feel like they needed to intervene in the growing power of the dictator Adolf Hitler.
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