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German leader Adolf Hitler meets with other German officials and decides that Germany deserves more land.
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Germany and Austria wanted to be on the same side, so when Hitler marched his troops into Austria there was no resistance.
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Munich Agreement with Britain and France gave Germany Sudetenland, and Hitler agreed to stop pursuing expansion. British and French officials chose to believe Hitler.
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Germany invades the rest of Czechoslovakia, breaking the Munich Agreement.
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Surprising many people, Stalin signed a nonaggression pact with Germany with secret plans to divide Poland’s lands between them.
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Germany starts attacking Poland using blitzkrieg strategy. It only took 3 weeks of major fighting for Poland to fall, with the Soviet Union attacking Poland in the last week.
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Britain and France declared war on Germany after Poland was attacked.
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Hitler launched a surprise invasion of Denmark and Norway to “protect their freedom and independence”, but he really planned to build bases and attack Great Britain.
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France fell to the Nazis, Italy helped Germany attack from the south while they invaded from the north.
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Britain’s RAF (Royal Air Force) shot down over 185 attacking German aircraft, and only lost 26 aircraft causing Hitler to call off the invasion of Britain. Both countries continued to bomb each others cities
