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Hitler began to defy the Treaty of Versiles
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War begins
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Hitler calls for the unification of all German speaking people
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Hitler threatened to invade German speaking Austria unless Austrian Nazis were given important government posts
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Britain and France gave in to Hitler's demands, a policy that came to be known as appeasement
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Germany sent troops into Czechoslovakia and divided the country
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Britain announced that if Poland went to war to defend it's territory, Britain and France would come to it's aid
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Creation of the non- aggression pact by the USSR and Germany
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Warsaw, the Polish capital, fell to the Germans
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Germany takes Polish capital
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Germans had defeated Polish military
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The evacuation of Dunkirk
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Churchhill gives defyance speech against Hitler
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Hitler accepted the French surrender in the same railway car in which the Germans had surrendered at the end of WW1
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German bombers accidently bombed London, the Brittish capital
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Hitler cancelled the invasion of Britain