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Hitler met secretly with his top military advisors and declared to grow and prosper Germany. He planned to absorb Austria and Czechoslovakia into the Third Reich.
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German troops march into Austria and take it over without violence. They declared that their union with Germany was complete.
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The Sudetenland in the Czech mountains, their biggest defense, was turned over to Germany through the Munich Agreement.
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Hitler sends his troops back into Czechoslovakia and takes over the rest of the country, sealing the countriy's fate. Hitler gloated, "Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist."
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Russia and Germany signed a nonaggression pact making sure that the two powers would never attack eachother. They also secretly planned to to divide Poland, avoiding a "Two-front" war.
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Germany invades Poland with Blitskreig tactics and wipes out cities, bases, railroads, and airfields
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France and Britain declare war on Germany. They were not going to let this happen.
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Hitler launches surprise invasions of Denmark and Norway to build bases on their borders to attack Great Britian. This ended the Phony war, or Sitting war.
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Hitler takes over France, capturing many soldiers. France surrenderd and Italy joins Germany's side.
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Hitler calls off invasion of Great Britian because of British RAF fighters taking down too many German bombers. However bombings on both sides continued.
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