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- Three million German speaking people lived in the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.
- He wanted to annex so that he could provide more living space for Germans.
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• Germans invaded Austria without opposition.
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• Hitler’s demand of Sudetenland• Appeased by Britain and France
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• It was originally put under military administration.• Shortly after, there was a lot of persecution of the Jews.
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• They agree not to attack each other.• They secretly agree to divide Poland.
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•Start of WWII
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•Lack of military strategy by the Western Allies against the German Reich•Germans called this a sitzkrieg, meaning “sitting war”
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• British called it Operation Dynamo.• Allied soldiers evacuated the shores of Dunkirk.
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• Ended the Phony War• Battle consisted of 2 main operations: Fall Gelb and Fall Rot
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•German air force WWII air campaign against the United Kingdom
•The main goal was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force.