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Hitler reoccupies the Rhineland (a demilitarized zone bordering France)
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Appeasment
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Hitler is welcomed into Austria and gives a speech from Vienna
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Hitler claims the Sudatenland, the German speaking part of Czechoslovakia
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German army moves into the rest of Czechoslovakia
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Hitler and Stalin sign a non-agression treaty, including partitioning of Poland in the event of a war
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German forces invade Poland
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England and France, who had treaties with Poland, declare war on Germany
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Danzig, the main Polish port city and major focus of Hitler's plan, is captured
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Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is captured
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Neville Chamberlin resigns as British Prime Minister