US furiously seeks to avert potential monthslong closure of Strait of Hormuz
CNN →US officials are furiously trying to avert a potential monthslong closure of the Strait of Hormuz, privately acknowledging that reopening the key waterway is a problem without a clear solution and dependent at least in part on what lengths President Donald Trump is willing to go to force the Iranian regime's hand, multiple administration and intelligence officials tell CNN.
London Acts Desperate Bid To Halt War
Continued from Page One.) many's leaders that the British gov- ernment was convinced: 1. That France cannot easily evade her obligation to aid Czechoslovakia against aggression; 2. That if France is involved in war with Germany Britain cannot afford to let her be beaten. Great Britain placed a ring of secret observers in Bohemia to help keep the lid on that seething home of Nazi-dominated and autonomy-seeking Sudeten Germans.
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Munich Agreement
The Munich Agreement was reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy. The agreement provided for the German annexation of part of the First Czechoslovak Republic called the Sudetenland, where three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived.
Wikipedia →Invasion of Poland
The invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II. The German invasion was preceded by the Danzig crisis and began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union.
Wikipedia →British declaration of war on Germany (1939)
On Sunday 3 September 1939, King George VI declared war on Germany—two days after the German invasion of Poland. France also declared war on Germany later the same day.
Wikipedia →Battle of France
The Battle of France , also known as the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) and France. The Low Countries and France were defeated and occupied by Axis troops down to the French demarcation line.
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