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Germany annexes Austria
German troops marched into Austria to annex to the German speaking nation for the Third Reich -
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Chamberlain meets with Hitler in Godesberg, Germany.
Hitler claims Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia would be final German demand for territory. Concerning the Sudetenland and amounting to an ultimatum address to the government of Czechoslovakia -
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Germany breaks the Munich Agreement
Hitler was contemplating the invasion which subsequently took place of the Sudetenland, part of Czechoslovakia, a country which Britian and France were treaty bound to defend in case of invasion. -
France and Great Britain agree to support Poland against Nazi aggression.
France and Great Britian agreed to help Poland with any Nazi problems that Poland has. -
Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact,
The Germans and the Soviet Union signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact which divided the Eastern Europe into the speres of influence -
Germany invades Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland -
Honoring their support of Poland,
France and Great Britian declare war on Germany -
Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich Agreement.
Permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia. After his success in absorbing Austria into Germany proper in March 1938, Adolf Hitler looked covetously at Czechoslovakia
