hitler’s war or chamberlain’s blunder
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Hitler’s War or Chamberlain’s Blunder. German Military Expenditures. German Armed Forces. Revising the Treaty of Versailles 1933. Announced Germany was suspending reparations payments Withdrew from the Disarmament Conference Withdrew from the League of Nations. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Hitler’s War or
Chamberlain’s Blunder
Fiscal Period Million Marks1933-34 750
1934-35 4,093
1935-36 5,492
1936-37 10,271
1937-38 10,963
1938-39 17,247
German Military Expenditures
German Armed Forces1932 1939
Warships 30 95
Aircraft 36 8,250
Soldiers 100,000 950,000
Revising the Treaty of Versailles
1933• Announced Germany was suspending
reparations payments • Withdrew from the Disarmament
Conference
• Withdrew from the League of Nations
Signs 10 year non-aggression pact with Poland
to secure eastern border
January 1934
1935• Saar Plebiscite returns region to
Germany
• Hitler announces German rearmament program
• Signs Anglo-German Naval agreement allows larger German navy than
stipulated by Treaty of Versailles
• Italy invades Abyssinia (October)
1936• March Rhineland Remilitarized
Hitler sends in 10,000 troops
• July Nazi planes airlifted Franco’s troops from Morocco to Spain
• October Rome-Berlin Axis signed
• November Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan signed
1937-38Countdown to War
• Nov. 1937 Hossbach MemorandumHitler reveals foreign policy
• March 1938 Anschlusstroops sent into Austriabecomes part of the German Reich
• May 1938 Sudeten CrisisHitler demands Czechoslovakian Sudetenland for German lebensraum
1939• March 15 Germany occupies
Czechoslovakia
• March 31 Anglo-French guarantee Poland
• April 28 Hitler terminates Anglo-German Naval agreementand Non-aggression Pact with Poland
• August 23 Nazi-Soviet Pact
• Sept.1- Germany Invades Poland
• Sept. 3- Britain and France declare war on Germany
September 1939