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The British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain and the French prime minister Edouard Daladier signed the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler, the Nazi leader. This agreement prevented the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest.
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Germany invaded Poland, then later decided that Nazi Germany would attack the Soviet Union the following spring.
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Red Army resisted German attempts to take the city.
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Largest amphibious operation in history that involved more than 5,000 ships landing the allied troops on a 50 mile stretch of Normandy.
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After D-Day invasion of June 1944, the allies broke out of Normandy and moved rapidly across Belgium and France.
Hitler planned a surprise in Blitzkrieg to stop them. -
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