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Origins and outbreak of WW2

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-hitlers aim
-unjust
-german leaders who sughed the treaty were known as the november criminals
-germany began to stop pahing reparations
Abolish treaty of Versailles
-lebensraum- 'living space'
-carving out an empire in Eastern Europe
Expand Germany territory
-anti-communism
-hitler also wanted to get rid of bolshevism
Defeat communism
Hitler withdrew Germany from disarmament conference and soon after the League of Nations
October 1933
Hitler signed a non aggression pact with Poland
1934
-1935
-allowed Germany to increase its army up to 35% of the size of the British army
Anglo German Naval Agreement
-previously owned by LoN but in 1935, a plebiscite was held to decide whether their land should return to German rule
-made hitler stringer
The saar
-Austrian chancellor tried to ban the nazi party in 1934
-hitler sent troops to Austria to cause havoc and dolfuss was murdered
-Austrian army intervened
-Mussolini agreed to protect Austria
Dolfuss affair
Coalition of France Britain and Italy
-opposed hitlers plans to rearm
Stresa front
-March 1936
-broke Locarno treaty
-France signed a treaty with ussr to protect each other from attack from Germany
-hitler used treaty to claim his country was under threat so he needed troops
Remilitarization of the Rhineland
-1936
-war broke out between communists
-hitler sent aircrafts to bomb spanish cities to show his power and anti communism
Spanish Civil War
-1938
-union of Austria and Germany
-took place with no objection
Anschluss
treaty in 1936 between Germany and Japan promising a common front against communism
Anti-Comintern Pact
-treaty is unfair
-not all areas of commonwealth would agree to another war
-must not repeat WW1
-economic problems are more important
-armed forces are not ready
-USA would not support Britain
appeasement policy arguments for
-too much trust in hitlers promises
-weakness
-Germany would grown too strong
-encouraged hitler to be aggressive
Appeasement arguments against
-benes the leader of Czechoslovakia sought a pact for protection from hitler with France and Britain
-chamberlain asked hitler if he had plans to invade czech and hitler said no
-chamberlain flew to hitler on the 15th of September
-hitler claimed he was only interested in some parts
-hitler then demanded he wanted all of the land
-hitler Claimed the Czech gov was mistreating Germans
Sudentenland
-1938
-gave hitler what he wanted (parts of czech)
-czechs we're not consulted
Munich agreement
-hitler invaded the rest of czech
-Britain and France declared that if hitler invaded the polish corridor they would declare war
End of appeasement
1939,The agreement between Hitler and Stalin to not attack each other; Hitler broke this truce
Nazi Soviet Pact
September 1, 1939
Britain and France declared war
Invasion of Poland
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