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  2. 1939 German ultimatum to Poland - Wikipedia

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    The Soviet invasion of eastern Poland followed on September 17. [3] On August 29, 1939, Adolf Hitler told British Ambassador Nevile Henderson that he was ready to resume negotiations with Poland. For this purpose, a Polish plenipotentiary was required to come to Berlin within 24 hours. [4] In principle, Poland and Great Britain were ready to ...

  3. Axis powers - Wikipedia

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    Hitler in 1941 described the outbreak of World War II as the fault of the intervention of Western powers against Germany during its war with Poland, describing it as the result of "the European and American warmongers". [42] Hitler had designs for Germany to become the dominant and leading state in the world, such as his intention for Germany's ...

  4. Timeline of World War II (1939) - Wikipedia

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    Germany's Führer, Adolf Hitler, answers immediately assuring the American chargé d'affaires Alexander C. Kirk that the Luftwaffe will only attack military targets. The British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain also promises to abide to the request, as does Poland's ambassador to the US Jerzy Antoni Potocki. [16]

  5. Collaboration in German-occupied Poland - Wikipedia

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    Poland's government crossed the border into Romania, and later formed a government-in-exile in France and then in London, following the French capitulation. Poland as a polity never surrendered to the Germans. [4] The partition of Poland according to the German–Soviet Pact; division of Polish territories in the years 1939–1941

  6. Allies of World War II - Wikipedia

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    The Allied leaders of the European theatre (left to right): Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting at the Tehran Conference in 1943 The Allied leaders of the Pacific War: Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill meeting at the Cairo Conference in 1943 French postcard illustrating the alliance between Poland, France and the United Kingdom (1939 ...

  7. Foreign relations of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    Hitler's Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940–1943 (2000) online; Leitz, Christian. Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933–1941: The Road to Global War (2004) Martin, Bernd. Japan and Germany in the Modern World (1995) Mazower, Mark. Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe (2009) excerpt and text search; Michalka ...

  8. List of expansion operations and planning of the Axis powers

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    Nazi propossals of a German-Lithuanian military alliance to invade Poland during Danzig crisis, returning the Vilnius Region to Lithuania in exchange of being turned into a German Puppet State. [6] Nazi Germany expansionism before WW2; Danzig crisis (German plans from January to August 1939 concerning Poland before the start of Polish-German ...

  9. Interwar period - Wikipedia

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    Cheering crowds greet Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Munich, 1938. Democracy and prosperity largely went together in the 1920s. Economic disaster led to a distrust in the effectiveness of democracy and its collapse in much of Europe and Latin America, including the Baltic and Balkan countries, Poland, Spain, and Portugal.