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Hitler met with his military advisers declaring that to grow and prosper Germany needed territory from neighboring countries.
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Hitler and his generals were drawing up a plan for the occupation of Czechoslovakia.
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Allies declared war on Germany on 3rd September 1939. Hitler had Poland within 4 weeks, Hitler divided it up with Russia.
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On the 24th November 1938, Hitler issued all German armed forces to prepare to take the free state of Danzig.
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Hitler signed the pact of steel in May 1939, with Italy claiming that they would come to each others side immediately in the event of war.
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called the Nazi-Soviet Non-agression pact, signed in August 1939, The British had now lost Russia as an Ally.
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Hitler invades the rest of Czechoslovakia on the 15th March 1939. What Hitler gained from doing this was
-45 divisions
-1582 aircraft
-469 tanks
-2,000,000 trained men -
agreement in which two nations promised not to go to war with each other
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German Air Forces roared over Poland, raining bombs on military bases.
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Two days following the terror in Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany--WW2 begins!!
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The german offensive trapped almost 400,000 British and French Soldiers as they fled to the beaches of Dunkirk on the French side of the English Channel. In less than a week, a makeshift fleet of fishing trawlers, tugboats, river barges ferried about 330,000 British, French, and Belgian troops to safety across the channel.
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The RAF shot down over 128 German planes, six weeks later Hitler called off the invasion of Britain indefinitely.
