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Between September 20 and September 25 Japanese forces took Hsiungyueh,
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Germany renounced its role in the Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments, ostensibly because the rest of the world refused to come down to their level of military preparedness.
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Roosevelt's State Department had lobbied for embargo provisions that would allow the President to impose sanctions selectively.
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China fought Japan, with some economic help from Germany.
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In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany.
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Hitler had previously started rearming Germany in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles, reoccupied the Rhineland in 1936 and annexed Austria in 1938.
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World War II 1939
Nazis take Czechoslovakia
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On this day, Hitler’s forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia.a nation sacrificed on the altar of the Munich Pact. -
Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
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German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west the morning after the Gleiwitz incident.
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Following the invasion of Poland in the fall of 1939, World War II lapsed into a lull known as the "Phoney War."
