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After revisions of the Treaty of Versailles, following World War I, Britain and France allowed the rearmament of the German military. -
Link Chamberlain issued a formal guarantee of Poland’s borders and said that he expected Hitler to moderate his demands.
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Link Britain and France pledged to defend Poland’s independence after Germany refused to abide by the Munich Agreement by invading and taking over Czechoslovakia.
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Link On April 3rd, Hitler ordered the Wehrmacht, the preparation of the invasion of Poland.
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Link Hitler delays his attack with Poland. He did this once he found out that Poland had signed a new treaty with Britain. This new treaty included military support if they were to be attacked
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Link The Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact (German-Soviet Pact) with Germany which benefited them because after the invasion of Poland, the Soviet's Red Army marched into Poand andseized one third of the land.
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Link Both Britain and France claimed they would support Poland against Nazi Germany.
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Link Major Polish counterattack which led to the Battle of the Bzura, largest in Polands campaign.
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Link The Polish capital of Warsaw fell to Germans. They used their new type of warfare, blitzkrieg or lightning war. Blitzkrieg used tanks to break through and encircle their enemies and also used aircrafts that bombed the enemy and dropped paratroopers to cut off supply lines.
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Link The Warsaw garrison surrened to Germany's siege. Following this, Germany and the USSR came to an agreement for the occupation of the outlining zones.
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Link The Polish army had been defeated.
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Link All mentally ill patients were shot and executed, however, due to the penalty of death the hospital personnel were not allowed to talk about it.
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Jewish killing squads accompany Germans as they invade the Soviet Union. The squids are assigned the job of exterminating any jews in the Soviet Union as well as those that have fled from Poland. They began by exterminating the adult males but eventually proceeded to kill both women and children. By spring of 1953, the killing squads had killed over a million jews. -
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Germans begin the Chelmno killing center operation as well as establishing five other camps: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Majdanek. All the camps use some sort of gas chamber including the largest of the camps, Auschwitz, which had four large gas chambers. Auschwitz being the only camp to use Zyklon B (crystalline hydrogen cyanide) while most other camps used variations of carbon monoxide. -
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SS officers and German government agencies meet in Berlin to discuss the “Final Solution”. They had estimated an involvement of over 11 million jewish people. By the end of 1944, millions of jews had been transported to killing centers in occupied Poland. -
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German began mass deportation of Polish jews in Warsaw to the Treblinka concentration camp. The deportation ended September 21, Yom Kippur, after thousands of jews had been deported by the Germans. -
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S.S. move out of the city and leave the executions in the hands of the local gendarmes (Armed police). Police began to execute the jews in trenches as they dug. -
Link SS officers storm the cities looking for all jewish people. Approximately 900 jews were rounded up and all ordered to be shot. Between 400-500 were killed and an estimated 2,000 jews were still in hiding.
