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Hitler met with his top military advisers and told them that Germany needed to take over their neighbors to grow and prosper as a country.
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German troops marched into Austria unopposed and unionized.
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Germany signed the Munich Agreement which turned the Sudetenland over to Germany. There were no shots fired.
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German troops poured into what remained Czechoslovakia and took it over. Hitler then wanted Poland.
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Hitler began his familiar routine, charging that Germans in Poland were being mistreated by the Poles and needed his protection
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Fascist Germany and communist Russia now committed never to attack each other.
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German air force, roared over Poland, raining bombs on military bases, airfields. railroads, and cities.
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Two days following the terror in Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany.
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Hitler launched a surprise invasion of Denmark and Norway in order
"to protect [those countries'] freedom and independence." -
William Shirer and the rest of the world watched, Hitler handed French officers his terms of surrender.
