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Nazi leaders met with Hitler in Nuremberg to discuss German expansion.
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Germany makes move in the conquest as their troops move into Austria.
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Nazi troops cross the border into Czechoslovakia.
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Walther von Brauchitsch leads the Nazis into Poland. Germany successfully used the Blitzkrieg tactic for the first time.
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Nikolaus von Falkenhorstand and the German troops invade and seize Denmark and Norway without warning.
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Germany invades the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium.
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led by Walther von Brauchitsch, German tanks breach the Ardennes, bypassing the Maginot line, and march to Paris.
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Gerd von Rundstedt entrapped the 400,000 British army in the coastal city of Dunkirk, France , and have to be rescued by over 800 vessels.
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German fleet builds up on french coast, and air war over Britain begins. Luftwaffe bombers bombed London relentlessly. 2000 of 2600 planes that Hitler had were put into combat over the skies of Britain.
