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Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany.
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Although Germany had been building up its army and air forces since the early 1920s, in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, the German goverment had kept this secret.
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Isolated clashes along the border betweeb Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland had been going on since December 1934, leading Benito Mussolini's Fascist government to begin preparations for an assult on the country.
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The Treaty of Versilles had prohibited Germany from stationing any military forces in a zone that reached from the German borders with france to Rhine River
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