A History of the World From the 20th to the 21st Century

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GERMANY

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EAST

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Gdynia

Memel

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Litovsk

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RUTHENIA

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ROMANIA

ALBANIA

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YUGOSLAVIA

GREECE

HUNGARY

Bratislava

German

Protectorate

Turin

Rome

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SAAR 1935

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GermanyJanuary 1935, Saar, plebiscite in Germany’s favour

March 1936, Rhineland (German sovereign territory remilitarized)

March 1938, Austria annexed

October 1938, Czechoslovak frontier regions (Sudetenland) annexed

March 1939, Memeland from Lithuania

March 1939, annexation of Bohemia and Moravia

September 1939, German occupation of Poland

Hungary

Poland

Soviet Union

November 1938, Czechoslovak frontier region

October 1938, Teschen from Czechoslovakia

March 1939, Ruthenia

Lithuania

October 1939, Vilna region from Poland

September 1939, Occupation of eastern Poland

The expansion of Germany, January 1935–October 1939