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The war begins
As tensions between the colonists and the British grew, a split developed and widened between those taking sides in America as the loyalists (colonists remaining loyal to the king) and the patriots (those opposing British laws). Near midnight, April 18, 1775 General Thomas Gage (British commander-in-chief) sent his soldiers toward Lexington . He wanted to seize patriot arms and ammunition stored in Concord -
The Anschluss
On this day, Adolf Hitler announces an "Anschluss" (union) between Germany and Austria, in fact annexing the smaller nation into a greater Germany. -
The Munich Conference
was a meeting of head goverment of germany the United Kingdom, France and Italy, represented by Führer and Reichs Chancellor Adolf Hitler, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister Édouard Daladier, and Duche and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, respectively, for the purpose of discussing the future of the Sudetenland in the face of territorial demands made by Adolf Hitler. -
The Nazi Soviet Pact
hitler wa preparing to invade poland to negotiated with the soviet union in order to keep peace with them
