hitler’s war or chamberlain’s blunder
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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
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