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Hitler met secertly with his top military advisers. His plan was to absorb Austria and Czechoslovakia into the Third Reich. He boldly declared that to grow and prosper Germany needed the lad of it's neighbors.
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Hitler launched a surprise invasionof Denmark and Norway in order to protect those countreis freedom and indepence. But in truth, Hitler planned to build bases along the coasts to strike at Great Britian. Next, Hitler turned against the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, whcih were oeverrun by the end of May.
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At Compiegne, as William Shirer and the rest of the world watched, Hitler handed French officers his terms of surrender.
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Harry S. Truman became President after Franklin Roosevelt died.
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North Korean forces swept across the 38th parallel in a surprise attack on South Korea.
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McCarthy made accusations against the U.S. Army which resulted in a nationally televised Senate investigation.
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From the beginning =, Kennedy focused on the Cold War he thought the Eisenhower administration had not done enough about the Soviet threat
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His inauguration set the tone of a new era
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About 2 weeks before Kennedy took office, President Eisenhower had cut off diplomatic relations with Cuba
