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Hilter met secretly with his top military services to planned to takeover Austria; Hilter's first target. He planned to absorb Austria and Czechoslovakia into the Third Reich. Hitler used force.
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German troops marched into Austria unopposed. Germany announced that it's union with austria was complete.
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Hilter had the French premier Edouard Daladier and the British prime minister Neville Chamberlian meet him in Munich. They signed the Munich agreement, which turned the Sudetenland over to Germany without a shot being fired.
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German troops poured into the remains of Czechoslovakia.German dictator turned his land-hungry gaze torward Germanys neighbor poland
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Germany and communistb Russia noew comitted never to attack each other. Germany and Soviet Union also signed a second, secret pact, agreeing to didvide Poland between them.
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The German Luftwaffe or German air force roared over Poland. Raining bombs on military bases, airfeilds, railroads, and cities.
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Britian and France declare war on Germany
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Italy entered war on the side of Germany and invaded France from the South as Germans closed in on Paris from the north.
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German offensive trapped almost 400,000 British and French soliders they fled to the beaches of Dunkirk on the French side of the English Channel. It took less than a week for 800 vessels in all ferried about 330,000 British,French,and Belgian troops to safety across the channel.
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After France fell French general Charles de Gaulle fled to England to set up a government-in-exile.
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World watched Hitler hand French officers his terms of surrender.
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In the Summer of 1940 Germans began to assembke an invasion fleet along theb French Coast.
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Approximately 2,000 German Planes ranged over Britain. The Ball of Britain raged on through the summer.
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The RAF shot down over 185 German planes; at the same time,they lost only 26 aircrafts.
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Hitler called off the invasion of Britain indefinitely.
