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Modern-day Austria and Germany have been united at various points in history: their predecessors within the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian-led German Confederation prior to the unification of German states under Prussia in 1871 and, most recently, the Anschluss in 1938 annexed Austria to the Third Reich.
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In the hope of creating a stable government the elderly president Hindenburg agreed to the plan. So on the 30th of January 1933 Hitler became chancellor of Germany.
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In 1935 Hitler unilaterally canceled the military clauses of the treaty and in March 1936 denounced the locarno pact and began remiliterizing of the Rhineland.
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A deal was reached on 29 September 1938, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement.
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On 15 March 1939, German troops marched into Czechoslovakia. They took over Bohemia.
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The Invasion of Poland or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland, and alternatively the Poland Campaign or Fall Weiss in Germany.
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The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.
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The Battle of Britain was a combat of the Second World War, when the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against the German Air Force attacks from the end of June 1940.
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On December 7, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the US Naval Base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.