Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stop Hitler! When the Germans successively won back the Saar, remilitarized the Rhine, took Austria and the Sudetenland, they always took pains to make out some sort of a case for themselves which an ever diminishing group of friends in the outside world was more or less willing to accept. Last week the treaty-breaking, lie-telling German Dictator had few friends left anywhere outside his and Italy's borders and along with the last shreds of his nation's honor he threw away all pretense of being anything but a Conqueror. Instead of trying to think...
...soldiers, acting under incredibly detailed orders obviously worked out weeks in advance, closed all banks, took over hotels, invaded barracks to disarm one of the best-equipped armies in Europe, and began to arrest political prisoners from a list of over 2,000. Residents were ordered to fly swastika flags which had been systematically distributed a few days before (ostensibly for the annual memorial to German War dead...
...Adolf Hitler seized Czecho-Slovakia because he thought the country's riches would pull him out of an economic hole, he is very likely to find himself as mistaken as when he took Austria and the Sudetenland. They have both proved to be liabilities...
...sorrow of Czecho-Slovakia, and still to the surprise of France and England, Aggrandizer Hitler took the Sudetenland on Oct.1, 1938-area: some 10,800 square miles; population: some 3,500,000; resources: rich deposits of coal and iron, highly developed industries principally textiles, glassware, chemicals. According to Neville Chamberlain, the Führer said at Munich...
...Rumanian border, where they surrendered their arms and were interned. But the Ukrainian Nationalist Guards of Carpatho-Ukraine, armed at the last minute by Premier Augustin Volosin, long a Ukrainian nationalist leader, put up a stiff resistance. There was a pitched battle to take Chust, the capital. It took Hungary a full four days to occupy the territory, in contrast to the mere eight or ten hours it took the Germans to seize