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Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
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Germany, Italy, Japan form pact known as Axis powers
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On March 12, 1938, German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. 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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Germany, italy, Great Britain, and France sign the
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Germany breaks the Munich Agreement and occupies the rest of Czech lands.
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Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact, dividing Eastern Europe into spheres of influence.
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After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland's border, had declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland on September 17, 1939.
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Honoring their support of Poland, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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- Night of broken glass -Jewish stores,shops & synagogues burned down -took place because a German official was killed in pairs by a Jew
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Germany quickly conquers Belgium,neverlands, and luxembourg
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The task of the luftwaffe then,was to take out the British Air Force
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the battle, which was the first major military campaign in history to be fought entirely in the air, was the result of a German plan to win air superiority over Southern Britain and the English Channel by destroying the British air force and aircraft industry.
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Phony War
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Operation Sea Lion called off/End of Battle of Britain
