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Germany's Anschluss with Austria
- Hitler creates a union b/w Germany and Austria
- in order to make Germany greater, he added the smaller nation
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The Munich Pact
- Pact was made b/w four countries (Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain)
- Locked Great Britain and France's agreement to Adolf Hitler's orders
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Germany's Annexation of the Sudetenland
- Sudetenland consisted mostly of ethnic Germans
- The Jews living in Sudetenland were persecuted
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Hitlers Annexation of Czech
- Czechoslovakia's northern and western regions were annexed
- Hitler left Czech very weak after the annexation
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The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
- Stated that GErmany and Russia would not harm each other
- If something happened, the two countries had to work it out w/o fighting
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Germany's Invasion of Poland
- it was the first military engagement of WWII
- hitler said "The decision to invade Poland was a gamble"
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The Phony War
- Happened after the blitzkrieg attack on Poland, no one thought tanything would happen
- Called the "phony war" because nothing really happened
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The Miracle at Dunkirk
- 350,000 men were trapped in the port of Dunkirk after the French and Britih were badly bent by Germany
- Aprox. 30,000 men were to be saved but the navy put out a call and saved over 340,000 men
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The Fall of France
- On June 12, the French commander announced the lost the battle
- After losing the battle, the only option left was to end
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The Battle of Britain
- Germany was trying to dominate the war in the air
- Their failure was a major turning point of WWII
