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Hiltler met secretly with his top miltary advisors. His plan was to absorb Austria and Czechoslovakia into the third reich.
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German troops marched into Austria unopposed. A day later, Germany announced that its union with Austria was complete. The US and the rest of the world did nothing.
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Daladler and Chamberlan signed the Munich Agreement, which turned the Sudetenland over to Germany without a single shot being fired.
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As dawn broke on the 15th, German troops poured into what remained of Czechoslovakia. After that Hitler turned his attention towards Germany's eastern neighbor, Poland.
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Hitler began his familiar routine, saying that Germans in poland were mistreated by the poles and needed his protection.
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Fascist Germany and communist Russia now committed never to attack each other. Germany and Soviet Union signed another secret pact agreeing to divide poland between them.
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German air force roared over poland, raining bomb on milarty bases, airfields, railroads and cities. Was the first test of their newest military strategy the blitzkrieg or lightening war.
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Poland, Britain, and France declared war on Germany.
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Hitler launched a surprise invasion of Denmark and Norway in order "to protect [those countries] freedom and independence" but in truth Hitler planned to build bases along the cocists to strike at Great Britain.
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The RAF shot down over 185 German planes; at the same time, they lost only 26 aircraft.
