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Germany's Anschluss with Austria
- Annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany
- First major steps in Adolf Hitler's creation of an empire
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Germany's Annexation of the Sudetenland
- Sudetenland: western regions of Czechoslovakia inhabited mostly by ethnic Germans
- Initially put under military administration
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The Munich Pact
- Permitted the Nazi German annexation of Sudentaland
- Signed by Nazi Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Italy.
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Hitler's Annexation of Czechoslovakia
- The rest of Czechoslovakia was weak after the loss of Sudetenland
- Ended with the surrender of Germany
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The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
- Germany and the Soviet Union - would not attack each other
- The pact was supposed to last for ten years; it lasted for less than two.
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Germany's Invasion of Poland
- Ended with the dividing and annexing of Poland
- After the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
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The Phony War
- Lack of major military operations
- various European powers had declared war on one another but neither side had committed to launching a significant attack
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The Miracle at Dunkirk
- the British army was totally defeated by Germany
- Over 300 000 soldiers were saved
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The Fall of France
- the French surrendered
- British troops were no longer there to assist the French Army
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The Battle of Britain
- Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the UK
- Goal: gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force