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Germany Annexes Austria
German troops march into austria to annex the german-speaking nation for the thrid reich. In the early 1938, Austrian nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the austrain government by force and unite their nation with nazi germany. -
Chamberlain meets with Hitler in Godesberg
On 7 September the Sudetens, led by Konrad Henlein, broke off the talks with Runciman, and on 12 September Hitler publicly advised the Sudetens to stand firm for union with germany. -
Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign Munich Aggreement
Permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia. -
Germany breaks the Munich Agreement
On september 1, 1939, 53 german army divisions invaded poland despite british and french threats to intervene on the nation's behalf.