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Austrian Anchluss
Hitler called for the unification of all Germans in Europe. He threatened to invade Austria if they didn't put Austrian Nazis in important government positions. The Austrian chanceller had put it to a vote. Fearing the outcome, Hitler invaded Austria anyway -
Munich Crisis
Hitler announced Germany claims to the Sudetenland. The Czechs strongly resist Germany's demands for the Sudetenland. Representitives of Britian, France, Italy, and Germany met in Munich to decide the fate of Czechoslovakia.
At the conference, they made concessions in exchange for peace -
Hitler demands Danzig
Hitler demands the city of Danzig returns to German control.
Britian annoounced that if Poland went to war to defend its territory, Britian snf Frsnce would come to its aid. -
NAzi-Soviet Pact
German officials offerend a nonnaggression treaty with the Russians. Stalin agreed, thinking the best way to stay out of war was to turn the capitalist countries against each other -
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The fall of France
Germsny invades France -
miricale of Dinkirk