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Hitler declares parts of the treaty of Versailles “null and void”
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Hitler uses the city of danzig as a pretext for confronting Poland
the soviet union -
germany withdraws from the league of nations
hitler did this because he wanted to rearm germany -
German army of 100,000 men
it was so big because after the first world war they made a treaty called treatry of versailles which restricted to this quantity of men -
Italy invades Ethiopia
his main reason was because he wanted to keep up with the jonesses, to have acces to the sea, and revenge from an earlier defeat in 1896 -
Britain adopts a policy of appeasement
tihs is the policy of granting concessions to potential enemies to maintain peace. -
Hitler occupies (“remilitarized”) the Rhineland
hitler had the justification to do this because the treaty of versailles punished germans harshly while they had already gone into depression -
Hitler occupies Austria
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parts of the sudetenland ceded to germany
was the name used before 1918 and in 1938-45 for the region inhabited mostly by Sudeten Germans -
Nazi/soviet pact
stalin knew that the last country that hitler was going to conquer was russia, so he made a treaty -
Hitler occupies the rest of Czechoslovakia
hitler didnt worry about breaking his promises because he already had alot of nazi-german to his side -
hitler invades poland
the direct result of this event was the start of ww2 -
Mussolini prepares to fight germany
he is afraid since everybody knows not how weak they were and also other governments didnt respect them. he was afraid to loose -
rome beriln axis
is a 1949 book by British historian Elizabeth Wiskemann.