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Hitler formally renounced the disarmament provisions of the Versailles Treaty with the formation of a German air force.Soon he reinstated conscription, which aimed at an army of half a million men.
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France and Britain met with Mussolini to form the Stresa Front. Promising to use force to maintain the status quo in Europe. This unity was short-lived however.
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Mussolini, using a border incident as an excuse, attacks Ethiopia.Mussolini wanted to restore Italy's pride by avenging their humiliating defeat from 1896. He ended up showing everyone just how much the League of Nations was letting him get away with.
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Elections brought to power a Spanish Popular Front government ranging from republicans of the left to communists and anarchists.
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Hitler took his greatest risk yet, sending a small armed force into the demilitarized Rhineland.This attack was not only against the Treaty of Versailles, but of the Locarno Agreement of 1925. This agreement was made voluntarily by Germany.
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Spanish Civil War broke out and made the new European alignment that found the Western democracies on one side and the fascist staes on the other clearer. The Falagists would not accept the fact that they lost the campain. General Franco led an army aginst the republic from the Spanish Morocco.
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Mussolini turned to Germany and he spoke publicly of a Rome-Berlin Axis. Before this, the League o fNations was made to look like a fool, so they alienated Mussolini. However, they didn't want to at first.
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The civil war brought Germany and Italy closer together leading to the Rome-Berlin Axis Pact. Japan entered the Axis powers by signing the Anti-Comintern Pact. Europe wanted to prevent Spain from falling into the hands of the fascists.
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Czechs recieve false rummors of an imminent attack by Germany and mobilized their army. The French, British, and Russians had declared that they would aid Czechoslovakia if war broke out. Hitler was then forced to announce publicly that he had no plans of attacking Czechoslovakia.
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Hitler made a provacative speech at the Nuremberg Nazi Party rally. His speech led to rioting in the Sudetenland. the Czechs then declared martial law.
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Chamberlin accepted the separation of the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. He and Edouard Daladier, the French premier, forced the Czechs to agree by threatening to abandon them. Chamberlain then heard that Hitler had raised his demands.
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Hilter was forced to fight a war without assistance and cooperation from the Soviet Union.High officers of the German army were opposed to Hitler's risky policies. If the West ever had a chance to conclude the alliance with the Soviet Union, the exclusion of the Russians from Munich helped destroy it.
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Germany puts pressure on Poland to restore Danzig and allow for a railroad to be built through the Polish Corridor. When the Polish did not agree, the usual propaganda techniques were brought out and the pressure increased. All of this was because Poland was Hitler's next target for expansion.
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Hitler took Prague, putting an end to the Czech state and any idea that he was only returning Germany to the Reich.
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Chamberlin announced a Franco-British guarantee of Polish independence. Hitler knew there would be a war with Poland, but he did not expect Britain to join in.
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Fascists won effective control of Spain when Barcelona fell to Franco.
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The world was shocked to find out about the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact because of the Nazi and Soviet rivalry.
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Germany ivaded Poland and within 2 days later, Britain and France declared war on Germany, beginning WW2.
