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First WWII Fight: Invasion of Poland Sparks War
The article recalls the dawn Sept 1 1939 return of dead and wounded to the German border after Adolf Hitler announced the invasion of Poland over the Danzig Corridor. It lists six signposts of looming conflict from Manchuria to Austria and Czechoslovakia and traces failures of Britain France and the League of Nations to act, with Mussolini and Japan’s actions in Ethiopia and Manchuria cited as precursors and warnings shaping the path to global war. The narrative links disunity among world powers to the rapid sequence of aggressions from 1931 to 1939 and notes the Munich agreement and subsequent occupation developments as pivotal milestones.
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Carl C
Cranmer Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Poland
Danzig
Hitler
Manchuria
Ethiopia
Rhineland
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Britain
France
United States
Henry Puyi
China
League of Nations
Japan
League
U.S
Henry L. Stimson
Shanghai
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Mussolini
Stanley Baldwin
Reich
Berlin
Schuschnnger
Vienna
Germany
Czechoslovak
Sudtenland
Sudetenlands
Neville Chamberlain
Edouard Daladier
Eduard Benes
Benes
Chamberlain
Emil Hacha
Prague
Albania