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Hitler secretly met with his top military advisers -
He declared that in order to grow and prosper Germany needed the land of its neighbors. -
German troops marched into Austria.
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Germany announced that its Anschluss* with Austria was done.
- Anschluss - union
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Munich Agreement* -
signed by Edouard Paladier from France & Neville Chanberlain from Britain. *turned the Sudetenland over to Germany, without a single shot being fired. -
German troops poured into what remained of Czechoslovakia.
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Fascist Germany & communist Russia -
committed never to attack eachother. -
German Luftwaffe* -
rained bombs over Poland military bases, airfields, railroads, & cities. German tanks also rushed across the Polish countryside.
*German air force -
Britain & France declared war on Germany.
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Hitler launched a suprise invasion on Denmark & Norway.
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Hitler handed French officers his terms of surrender*.
*Germany would occupy northern part of France and part of the Nazi government would be stationed in southern France. -
About 2,000 German planes -
ranged over Britain, bombing London every night for two months. -
RAF* shot down over 185 German planes.
- Britain's Royal Air Force
