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Hilter met with his top military advisors. He declared that Germany needed the land of it's neighbors to grow and prosper.
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German marchced in to Austria unopposed. Germany announced that its union with Austria was complete a day later.
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Hilter, the French premier Edouard Daladier, and British prime minister Neville Chamberlain met and signed the Munich Agreement which turned over the Sudetenland over to Germany without causing a war.
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German troops invaded the reminants of Czechoslovakia.
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Hilter began his usual routine, charging that Germans in Poland were mistreated by the Poles and needed his protection. Some people believed that Hilter was bluffing.
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Germany and Comunist Russia now commited never to attack each other. Germany and the Soviet Union also signed a second, secret pact agreeing to divide Poland between them.
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The German air force flew over Poland dropping bombs on their military bases, air fields, railroads, and cities. During this time, Geramn tanks raced acrossed the Polish countryside. This invasion was the first test of Germany's newest military strategey know as the blitzkrieg also known as lightening war.
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Two days falling the terror in Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany.
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Hilter launched a suprise invasion of Denmark and Norway in order "to protect those countries freedom and independence". In realality, Hilter wanted to build bases along the coasts to strike at Great Britain. He then turned against the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxenmbourg. By the end of May these countries had been overrun and the phony war ended.
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Hitler handed French officers his terms of surrender. Germans would occupy the northern part of France, and a Nazi-controlled government, headed by Marshall Philippe Petain in southern France.
