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Six Steps to War
- Conscription and Rearmament
- In 1935 Hitler
introduced conscription
(calling men to army)
This broke the Treaty of
versailles
- Because of
appeasement Britain
and France let him
get away with it
- Rhineland
- Hitler invaded the
Rhineland on
March 7th 1936
- Also went against TOV
- It was a bluff; the
german army only had
22,000 soldiers and had
orders to retreat if met
by any resistance
- France and Britain did nothing
- Austria
- In 1938, Hitler
tried to take
over Austria
- First Hitler
encouraged the
Austrian Nazis to
demand union with
Germany
- Due to pressure
Austria had
Anschluss with
Germany
- Again breaking the Treaty
of Versailles and again no
responce from France or
Britain
- Czechoslovakia
- In March 1939, Hitler's
Troops marched into the
rest of Czechoslovakia. This
was when Britain knew
there would have to be a
war
- Hitler had promised he
would need no more of
Czechoslovakia but lied
- Sudetenland
- In 1938, Hitler tried
to take over the
Sudetenland but
failed
- In Munich 29th Sep. 1938
Britain and France gave the
Sudetenland to Hitler
without Czechoslovakia's
consent
- USSR/NAZI pact and Scottland
- In 1939, Hitler tried to
Poland. First the German's
in Danzig demanded union
with Germany so Hitler
threatened war
- Chamberlain promised
to support Poland if
Germany attacked
- In August 1939, Hitler had
a secret union with Russia,
believing it would stop
Britain and France helping
Poland
- On the 1st September 1939
Hitler declared war on
Poland two days later Britain
declared war on Hitler