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Hitler threatened to invade German- Speaking Austria unless Austrian unless Austrian Nazis were given important government posts. So Hitler sent troops into Austria in March and announced the Anschluss, or unification, of Austria and Germany.
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Britain and France agreed to Hitler's demands, a policy that came to be known as appeasement. They mad concessions in exchange for peace. Britain's Neville Chamberlain said, " a peace with honor... peace in our time".
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Hitler demanded that the city of Danzig be returned to German control. It was part of Poland since WWI.
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German officials proposed a nonaggression treaty to the Soviets. If the USSR signed the treaty, Germany will go to war with Britain and France and Russia will be safe. The treaty also had a secret deal that would divide Poland to Germany and Russia.
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Some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. The Germans bombed Polish airfields and German U- boats attacked Polish naval forces.
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France built a 280- mile fort on the border of France and Germany. Germany broke though the fort and pushed France.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wMjKlxtPRxoJ:www.historyinanhour.com/2012/06/22/the-fall-of-france-summary/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us -
The evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk on the Belgian coast ends as German forces capture the beach port. It saved 338,000 Allied troops from capture by the Nazis.
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German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date. This was a significant turning point in WWII.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-battle-of-britain-begins
