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Germany withdrew from both the League of Nations and the World Disarmament Conference. The move was associated with the Treaty of Versailles and was popular.
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Germany and Poland signed a non-aggression pact.
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The Saar Region of Germany became part of the Reich
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Germany broke the Treaty of Versailles and reintroduced conscription.
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The Anglo-German Naval Treaty was signed. Relations between Germany and Britain improved.
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Germany violated the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaty by moving troops into the demilitarised Rhineland.
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Germany introduced the Four-Year Plan: Indicated that the German economy had to be geared to support a war.
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Mussolini proclaimed the existence of the Rome-Berlin axis
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Hitler always intended to unite the country of his birth with the country he now led, but a union (Anschluss) between the two countries had been forbidden by the 1919 peace settlement. In March, Schuschnigg visited Hitler at his home near the Austrian border. Hitler used the meeting to threaten and pressure the Austrian leader.
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The Munich Conference took place (Britain, France, Italy). The Sudentenland was surrendered to Germany. Britain, France and Italy handed it over to Hitler for appeasement.
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German troops entered the Czech capital, Prague, and Czechoslovakia ceased to exist as an independent naiton. This marked the end of appeasement as Hitler had declared that the Sudetenland was his 'last territorial demand'.
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Germany signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union.
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Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France declared war on Germany.
