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Hitler charged that the Czechs were abusing the Sudeten Germans, and he began missing troops on the Czech border.
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German troops marched into Austria unopposed, forcing Schuschnigg to resign
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Daladier and Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact which turned the Sudetenland over to Germany without a shot being fired
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German troops poured into what remained of Czechoslovakia. At nightfall Hitler gloated "Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist."
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The Soviet Union and Germany signed the non aggression pact in which they agreed not to fight each other.
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Germany war plans roared around Poland, raining bombs on military bases, airfields, railroads and cities. This invasion was the first time trying Germans new military strategy, the blitzkrieg.
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Hitler launched a surprise invasion of Denmark and Norway as the whole world stared.
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Hitler handed French officers his terms of surrender. Germans would occupy the Northern part of France and the Nazi- controlled puppett government would set up Vichy in southern France.
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The German started to assemble an invasion fleet along the coast of France, and also an air war at the same time. The German lost 56 planes and the Britain only lost 26, so the Fuhrer called off the invasion
