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An agreement that Hitler should have the Sudetanland of Czechoslovakia & that no country would come to their aid were forced to surrender the Sudetenland to Germany.
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Adolf Hitler invades poland and begins taking the jews to concentration camps
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Britain and France declared war on Germany. Neville Chamberlain broadcast the announcement that the country was at war
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the french signed an armistice with Germany taking France, which had been devastated, out of the war and into German occupation
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This pact of mutual alliance was signed by Germany, Italy and Japan.
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Hitler sent 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia. The Russians were taken by surprise as they had signed a treaty with Germany in 1939.
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The Japanese, who were already waging war against the Chinese, attacked the US pacific fleet at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii
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The Japanese captured Singapore from the British, taking some 60,000 prisoners.
