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Aldo he didnt get the right mayority he can deal with other parties and became chancellor.
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Hitler instructed the German general, von Fritsch, to end German disarmament and create an army of the greatest possible strength
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He won elections and took complete control
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Democracy came to an end when the reichstag passed the "enabling law"
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Hitler showe his contempt for the Versailles settlement by withdrawing Germany from the League
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Hitler dismiss the Disarmament Conference that had been meeting at Geneva from 1932
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Hitler introduced conscritption and began to increase massively the number of German soldiers
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THe Italian attack on Abyssinia began.
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Hitler ordered GErman troops to march into the Rhineland. Hitler ordered to withdraw if French troops attack, this was a very risky movement, perhaps if French attacked, war could have been different.
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all the sanctions aganist Italy were ended.
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Schuchnigg was badly treated at this meeting. Hitler shouted at him for 2 hours. He said that Germans must join the Austrian government and be given the control of the law and order.
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Schuschnigg made one last desperate attempt to keep Austria independent. The lowest age of voting was 24, so young nazis cant vote. Hitler invaded before the plebiscite.
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In Vienna 76000 people were arrested in aftermath of the invasion.
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He went to his own home town of Linz where he was greeted by cheering crowds.
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There were 3 million German speakers in Czechoslovakia and the local nazi leader, Konrad Henlein, claimed that the sudeten Germans were not treated fairly. Hitler met Henlein and told him to keep making demands, hoping to make a crisis.
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Chamberlain met Hitler at Berchtegaden. Hitler complained to him about the treatment of the Sudeten Germans. Chamberlain agreed that the Sudentenland have to be anexed to Germany.
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THe South African parliament voted in favour of neutrality if war broke out between Germany and Britain.
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Britain and France agreed to give Hitler the Sudetenland
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German troops marched unnposed into the Sudetenland. The Czech president, Benes, was forced to go into exile
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Chameberlain was told that the South African and Australian governments would not give military support if war broke out.
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The Soviet Foreign Minister, Lirvinov, outlined the basis for a treaty to France and Britain. This would have involved all three promising to defend the existing borders of the states of Eastern Europe form German attack.
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The Soviets asked the British and the French if they could esure a right passage for Soviet troops through Polish and Romanian territory. They said no. Soviet generals were exasperated by this.
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Hitler wrote a personal letter to Stalin offering high level talks in Moscow.
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Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister arrived Moscow with full power to negotiate and sign a non-agression treaty. Stalin was particularly interesed in the "secret protocol", in which the Soviet Union was offered control of Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Belarrus and Ukraine.
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The Second World War began. Britain and France pledged to defend Poland.
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The French and the British governments declared war on Germany. They could do very little to stop a German victory in Poland, by the end of this month Polish resistance had collapsed.
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Soviet forces crossed the Polish frontier and took eastern Poland. This was part of the deal that Hitler made with Stalin. He also moved troops into the Baltic states of Latvia. Lithuania and Estonia.
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Hitler was planing the attack on France. British and the French tried to weaken Germany by stopping German trade in the sea, They tried to cut off the supply of iron from Scandinavia. So France. Britain and Germany have a little fight.
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Hitler struck west, Belgium, The Netherlands and France were invaded and defeated by German forces and a British army was forced to leave the continent.
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Mussolini thought the war was coming to an end, so he joined forces with Hitler so to get some rewards.
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The German airforce, the Luftwaffe, set out to win control of the air over Britain. This was the first stage of the invasion plan. German planes bombed military sites, factories, and London. The British airforce, the RAF. fought back and controlled the situation and force Hitler to put off his plans over Britain
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Germany invaded the Soviet Union in an operation known as Barbarossa. They penetrated inside The Soviet Union capturing jet cities.
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This led The Usa into the war. TheUsa joined forces with Britain, in order to defeat Japan, Germany and Italy. The Americans made the difference and was the determining factor or defeating Germany, Italy and Japan.
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The Usa army stopped the Japanese one in Midway Atoll. (paciffic ocean)
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Hitler joined his army in the south and tried to get the southern city of Stalingrad.
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The Soviet forces launched a counter attack in November and The German army was surounded. The batle of Stalingrad was a crucial event. It proved thet the Red Army could beat the German army. After Stalingrad Germany was on the defensive and the war began against Hitler.
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The Germans were defeated by the British army in the Battle of Alamein. By may 1943 the Germans and Italians had been completely driven out north of Africa.
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The British and the American forces landed to Italy in 1943. The Germans, gave resistance in order to keep the British out of Italy.
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The Americans invade Normandi, France (conquered by the nazis) and reached Paris by August. This batler is remember as one of the most "bloody" ones.
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The Germans abandoned Leningrad. By the summer of 1944 the Germans were in Retreat across the Soviet Union
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Hitler attack the Ardenes, Belgium. The German attack was finally turned back.
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German power collapsed. The Soviets captured Berlin and Hilter comitted suicide
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He was captured and killed by anti-fascist fighters.
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THitler comitt suicide so the Germans finaly surrendered, but the war continued for Usa against Japan that offered a huge resistance.
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For the Usa, trying to invade the Japanese islands through water would significate a huge lose of soldiers. They had developed a new weapon, the atomic bomb. In august 1945 two atomic bombs were dropped in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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After the two bombs, Japan was devastated and forced to surrender, and the Second World War ended.
