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1937
 
   
Japanese troops occupy Beijing – at the start of eight years of continuous war between China and Japan      
1937
 
    
Buchenwald, near Weimar, is set up as a concentration camp providing forced labour for local arms manufacturers       
1937
 
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Adolf Hitler, entertaining Mussolini in Germany, puts on spectacular demonstrations of German military and industrial might       
Hitler and Mussolini, photograph 1937
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1937
 
   
The Japanese capture the Chinese capital, Nanjing, and massacre at least 300,000 inhabitants within a few weeks      
1938  March 1
 
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German tanks cross the border into Austria, on the official invitation of Austrian Nazis     
1938  March 12
 
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Adolf Hitler, following his troops into Austria, announces the Anschluss (union of Germany and Austria)       
1938  April 24
 
    
The Sudeten German National Socialist Party demands secession from Czechoslovakia, in keeping with Hitler's plans for the Sudetenland       
1938 September 15
 
     
Neville Chamberlain makes the first of three flights to Germany, this time to negotiate with Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden        
1938 September 29
 
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Neville Chamberlain and Édouard Daladier fly to Munich to discuss Hitler's designs on the Czech Sudetenland        
1938 September 29
 
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Chamberlain and Daladier agree at Munich that Hitler may annexe the Czech Sudetenland, with its largely German population