INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (1935-1939)

By Milla_eloise

  • MEMEL GIVEN TO LITHUANIA

    Agreed upon by Super Powers (Allies) after Treaty of Versaille

  • SAAR AREA UNDER FRENCH CONTROL

    Victor Roult

  • SAAR AREA UNDER CANADIAN CONTROL

    George Washington Stephens

  • SAAR AREA UNDER BRITISH CONTROL

    Ernest Collins and Geoffrey Knox

  • HITLER APPOINTED AS GERMAN CHANCELLOR

    Originally Vice Chancellor, becomes Chancellor bc of President Hindenburg

  • REICHSTAG DISSOLVED

    Elections on 5 March

  • GERMANY WITHDRAWS FROM L.O.N

    Over issues extension of disarmament

  • 10 YR NON AGGRESSION PACT WITH POLAND

    Signed by Nazi's and Poland- weakens French-Polish ties

  • DOLLFUSS ASSASSINATED

    Coup by Austrian Nazis

  • SAAR PLEBISCITE

    90% of people in Saar voted in favour of reuniting with Germany-victory for Hitler

  • GERMAN REARMAMENT PLAN

    Conscription of 1/3 of British army

  • STRESA FRONT

    "Don't do this thing or consequences"
    Held in Stresa, Italy. Combined stance against aggressors who violated (meant to stop German aggression- Hitler encouraged by weak response)
    Mussolini (Italy), MacDonald (Britain), Laval (France)

  • ANGLO-GERMAN NAVAL AGREEMENT

    Terms: German allowed to build 1/3 size of British Navy.
    Effect: Violated Treaty of Versailles; Undermined Anglo-French relations; rendered Stresa Front meaningless

  • ABYSSINIA INVASION

    Condemnation by League, German support

  • HOARE-LAVAL PACT

    Secret agreement betw. France and Britain to partition Abyssinia to appease Mussolini (never came into affect)

  • GERMAN TROOPS INVADE RHINELAND (BIG STATEMENT)

    Buffer betw. Britain and France- value in coal
    Originally German land (including Saar); "it's yours anyway" -Brits
    No opposition from Allies; Hitler stronger in Germany

  • SPANISH CIVAL WAR

    Hitler supports Nationalist; No direct impact; shift in political thinking in Europe

  • CHAMBERLAIN GIVES INTO HITLERS DEMANDS

    Can rearm, take Czechoslovakia, take Sudatanland

  • ROME-BERLIN AXIS

    Official Coalition between Hitler and Italy

  • ANTI-COMITERN PACT

    Germany and Japan-against communism

  • HITLER RENOUNCES TREATY OF V

    Fourth anniversary of Nazi's coming to power

  • SCHUSCHNIGG'S FORCE RESIGNATION

    "I say goodbye with the heartfelt wish that God will protect Austria)

  • ANSCHLUSS WITH AUSTRIA

    Hitler reunites with homeland

  • CHAMBERLAIN BECOMES PRIME MINISTER OF BRITAIN

    Policy of appeasement: avoid war at all costs

  • ITALY AND SPAIN JOINED ANTI-COM PACT

    Forming group known as Axis Power

  • POLICY OF APPEASEMENT COMES INTO PLAY

    Avoid war at all costs

  • HITLER THREATENS NAZI INVASION IN AUSTRIA

    After meeting with Schuschnigg in Berchtesgaden; he threatens to invade unless Austria became under Nazi control

  • SEYS-INQUART APPOINTED TO CABINET POSITION

    Pro-Nazi member (leader of Nazi party) in Austrian cabinet supported union with Germany

  • AUSTRIA PLEBISCITE HELD BY NAZIS

    90% yes; absorbed into Reich

  • GOERING WARNS JEWS

    Jews should leave Austria

  • NAVAL EXPANSION ACT

    Roosevelt given one billion dollars by US Congress to expand Navy in case of war.

  • NUREMBERG RALLY

    Hitler promises to liberate Sudeten Germans

  • HITLER: IMMEDIATE OCCUPATION OF SUDETENLAND

    Chamberlain meets Hitler at Godesberg; I WANT SUDETENLAND NOW

  • GERMAN REARMAMENT ALMOST COMPLETE

    No opposition due to policy of appeasement

  • MUNICH AGREEMENT

    Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier (French Leader) meet:
    Whole of Sudetenland to Germany
    Teschen goes to Poland
    Small Southern Regions to Hungary
    Four powers 'guarentee' new Czech borders

  • PEACE FOR OUR TIME

    Angolo-German Agreement:
    Chamberlain comes back from Munich conference: quotes

  • KRISTALLNACHT

    "Night of Broken Glass"; first persecution of Jews; burn down synagogues; sent to concentration camps; killed

  • ELECTIONS HELD IN MEMEL

    Nazi had 90%

  • HUNGARY JOINS ANTI COMINTERN PACT

    Along with Japan and Germany

  • GERMAN PROTECTORATE OVER SLOVAKIA

    Troops move in, take Bohemia, German protectorate declared

  • CHAMBERLAIN CONDEMNS INVASION OF SLOV

    Makes speech, "next time, we're coming for you"

  • GERMAN ULTIMATUM WITH LITHUANIA

    Give back Memel

  • GERMANY INVADES MEMEL

    Between 5am and 7am

  • CHAMBERLAIN PLEDGES BR/FR SUPPORT

    To Polish gov

  • CASE-WHITE

    Hitler's secret plan to invade Poland from 1st of September

  • ITALY INVADES ALBANIA

    Albanians offer little resistance having rejected ultimatum of Italian protectorate.

  • ITALIAN COMPLETE OCCUPATION OF ALBANIA

    Hitler now had control-through alliance with Mussolini- Albania

  • HUNGARY LEAVES L.O.N

    Hungary leaves the League of Nations

  • BR/FR SUPPORT FOR GR/ROM

    If countries went to war to preserve independence

  • BRITISH CONSCRIPTION

    For males from 20-21

  • HITLER RENOUNCES PACTS

    Anglo-German Naval Agreement and German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact

  • MOLOTOV BECOMES FOREIGN AFFAIR MINISTER USSR

    Later to sign non-aggression pact with Nazis

  • PACT OF STEEL (ITALY & GERM)

    Military alliance

  • NAZI NON-AGRESSION PACT WITH DENMARK

    Originally for April, however people didn't sign

  • RIBBENTROP-MOLOTOV: NAZI-SOVIET

    Stalin and Hitler agree on non aggression pact; so that Hitler can have the East and Russia the West

  • POLISH CORRIDOR/DANZIG

    "Return to Germany" demand made by Local Nazi Party leader Albert Foster

  • INVASION OF POLAND

    Nazi Germany, Soviet Union and others invade and so begins WW1

  • WWII BEGINS: BRITAIN/FRANCE DECLARE WAR

    WWII begins