Time quickly arrived at the end of 1938.
For this rapidly concluding year of 1938, the sole theme was the continuous defeats of the Allied Powers.
Italy and Spain both had their capitals breached in the middle of the year, ultimately having no choice but to choose unconditional surrender.
Yet this was not the only piece of bad news.
Ever since Anglo-French-Australasian forces determined their offensive against northern Europe, the Germans had been forced to split their forces to the northern European battlefield to defend the three Nordic countries.
Following the surrenders of Spain and Italy, the importance of northern Europe grew increasingly prominent.
Northern Europe not only provided Germany with crucial mineral resources, but also kept the number of Germany's overt allies from looking too shabby.
More importantly, if the northern European region were captured, Germany's theoretically only possible access to the sea would also be cut off.
A Germany confined solely to Central Europe could by no means out-consume the colonial empires of Britain and France.
Facts also proved that the Germans were completely incapable of drawing out a force with sufficient strength to support northern Europe while fighting on two fronts.
Anglo-French-Australasian forces took only two and a half months to conquer the greater part of Norway, successfully recapturing important Norwegian cities such as Bergen, Stavanger, Kristiansand, and Oslo.
If recapturing the majority of Norway was not yet enough to rattle Germany's foundations, then the subsequent actions of the Anglo-French-Australasian forces were enough to give the Germans a severe headache.
Clearly, a tiny Norway was not the full objective of the Anglo-French-Australasian forces; it was merely a very small part of the entire plan.
After recapturing the Norwegian capital of Oslo, Anglo-French-Australasian forces continued expanding eastward without stopping, for to the east of Norway lay Sweden, the