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Event | Number |
Hitler wants to tear up the Treaty of Versailles and make Germany a great power again | 1 |
Hitler publicly announces reintroduction of conscription which increases the size of his army. | 2 |
Hitler increases the size of the navy and builds an airforce named the Luftwaffe | 3 |
Hitler occupies the Rhineland and are greeted by cheering crowds | 4 |
Hitler secretly gives orders for his troops to withdraw if French forces attack them. | 5 |
Hitler forms an alliance with Mussolini known as the Rome-Berlin Axis | 6 |
The French do nothing about the German troops in the Rhineland because they believe his army is bigger than it is and do not want to risk another war. | 7 |
The British do nothing about the expansion of the German army or their occupation of the Rhineland because they feel that the Treaty of Versailles was too harsh. | 8 |
Neville Chamberlain follows a policy of appeasement - this was a weakness that Hitler exploited. | 9 |
Hitler forces the Austrian Chancellor to bring leading Austrian Nazis into his government. He is replaced and German troops are invited in to restore order. - Austria is annexed to Germany - crowds are enthusiastic | 10 |
Hitler accuses the Czechs of treating the people of the Sudetenland very badly - he wants them to hand it over to them. | 11 |
The Munich Conference (a meeting of Britain, France, Italy and Germany) decides that the Czechs must hand over the Sudetenland to Germany. | 12 |
Chamberlain returns to Britain and is welcomed as a hero who prevented another war. | 13 |
Hitler threatens to bomb Prague if the Czechs do not let his troops occupy Czech lands | 14 |
British and French are outraged - they fear that Hitler will target Poland next. | 15 |
Hitler demands the return of the German-speaking town of Danzig in Poland | 16 |
Alliance made between Hitler and Stalin called the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact | 17 |
On 1 September German troops attack Poland - Britain and France demand that the Germans stop the invasion - Germans refuse and they declare war on 3 September. | 18 |
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