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Hitler’s 1939 Poland Invasion Marked Start of World War II
The article notes the first casualties at the German border at dawn on September 1 1939 as Hitler announced invasion of Poland and outlines a sequence of prewar tensions and signposts from Manchuria to Ethiopia and Austria. It chronicles rising powers and failed collective action by the League of Nations amid looming global conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl C. Cranmer
Associated Press
Adolf Hiter
Poland
Danzy
Hitler
Third Reich
Manchuria
Eopia
Rhoneland
Austria
Czechlovakia
Henry Pus
China
League of Nations
Japan
League US
Henry L. Stumson
Kurt von ‘Schuschnigg
Schuschnige
Berlin
Schuschugg
Vienna