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1938 Treaty of Munich signed by Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Édouard Daladier and Neville Chamberlain, forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany. Chamberlain infamously declares "Peace for our time" on his return to London.

1939 Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland.

1939 Britain first evacuates citizens in anticipation of war.

1946 Twenty-two Nazi leaders, including Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hermann Goering, are found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death or prison at the Nuremberg war trials.

1954 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned by the US Navy.

1977 Due to US budget cuts, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.