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Hitler’s War or Chamberlain’s Blunder. German Military Expenditures. German Armed Forces. Revising the Treaty of Versailles 1933. Announced Germany was suspending reparations payments Withdrew from the Disarmament Conference Withdrew from the League of Nations.
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Revising the Treaty of Versailles1933 • Announced Germany was suspending reparations payments • Withdrew from the Disarmament Conference • Withdrew from the League of Nations
Signs 10 year non-aggression pact with Poland to secure eastern border January 1934
1935 • Saar Plebiscite returns region to • Germany • Hitler announces German rearmament program • Signs Anglo-German Naval agreement • allows larger German navy than stipulated by Treaty of Versailles • Italy invades Abyssinia (October)
1936 • March Rhineland Remilitarized • Hitler sends in 10,000 troops • July Nazi planes airlifted Franco’s troops from Morocco to Spain • October Rome-Berlin Axis signed • November Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan signed
1937-38 Countdown to War • Nov. 1937 Hossbach Memorandum • Hitler reveals foreign policy • March 1938 Anschluss • troops sent into Austria • becomes part of the German Reich • May 1938 Sudeten Crisis • Hitler demands Czechoslovakian • Sudetenland for German lebensraum
1939 • March 15 Germany occupies • Czechoslovakia • March 31 Anglo-French guarantee Poland • April 28 Hitler terminates • Anglo-German Naval agreement • and Non-aggression Pact with • Poland • August 23 Nazi-Soviet Pact
September 1939 • Sept.1- Germany Invades Poland • Sept. 3- Britain and Francedeclare war on Germany