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Anschluss was the propaganda term for the invasion of Austria into Nazi Germany
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-Signed by the French Premire, Daladier, and the British Prime Minister, Chaimberlain
-Sudetenland was handed over to Germany without a fight
-Criticized by Winston Churchill. He believed it was appeasement, or giving up on principles to pacify aggression -
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-Spring of 1939
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-Stalin signs the Nonaggression Pact was where Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to take no millitary action on each other.
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-Bombs from the air
-Used a tactic called blitzkrieg, or lightning warfare -
France, Britain, and Poland agree to declare war on Germany together.
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-Stalin sends Soviets to Finland, and within three months the Finn's surrender.
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Hitler launches a surprise invasion of Denmark and Norway
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-Germany was given the northern part of France
-French general, Charles de Gaulle fled to England and set up a government-in-exile -
-Luftwaffe, or German air force, bomb Britain from the air while the navy attacked the boarders
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-Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) shoot down 185 German planes.
-Six weeks later Hitler calls off the Great Britain invasion