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…showed last 75 words of 769 total…announced their intention to defend the sovereignty of Poland. Because Hitler had concluded that he could not hope for British neutrality in the coming war, he formed a formal military alliance with Italy--the Pact of Steel. In August he signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, thus apparently freeing Germany from repeating the two-front war it had fought in World War I. World War II was no longer inevitable. It had begun!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**