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- Through the 1930s, Europe
has seen the rise of fascism in Italy and Nazi Germany. Political
leaders have read Mein Kampf and understand that Hitler is power
hungry. Neville Chamberlain has taken the lead in "appeasment"
which has evidently failed. Germany had annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia
without interference. With threats from Britain and France, they
Blitzkrieged through Poland. The Allies respond by declaring
war, but the French fail to act on the Rhine frontier with absence
of German troops. Little action has taken place and it is nicknamed
"the phony war". It is now May and Hitler is recieving
reports that the Dutch are taking precautions and might allow
the British to reinforce them. He gives the order to attack and
the three German armies begin to move...
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