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November 5 1937
HItler met secretly with military adisers -
March 12 1938
marched into Austria unopposed -
September 30 1938
signed the munich agreement -
March 15 1939
German troops poured into remaining Czechoslovakia -
September 3 1939
Britain and France declared war on Germany -
late 1939
Stalin sent Soviet Army into Finland -
April 9 1940
HItler launched suprise invasion of Denmark and Norway -
May 1940
Winston Churchill became prime minister -
June 22 1940
HItler handed French officers his term of surrender -
Summer 1940
Germans assemble invasion fleet along French Coast -
August 15 1940
Planes roared over Britain bombers pounded London -
September 15 1940
RAF shot down over 185 German planes