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- From top to bottom, left to right: The Anschluss sees Nazi Germany annex Austria, escalating Hitler’s expansionist agenda; Kristallnacht erupts across Germany and Austria, with Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues destroyed, thousands of Jewish people killed or arrested; the Munich Agreement is signed as Britain and France appease Hitler by allowing the annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia; the 1938 FIFA World Cup is held in France, with Italy winning their second consecutive title; the 1938 Yellow River flood in China, caused by intentional dike breaches during the Second Sino-Japanese War, displaces millions; and Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds, causing panic among listeners. (en)
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