Rearmament
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- Created on: 26-04-19 13:14
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- Rearmament
- March 1935
- What Happened?
- Reintroduced conscription
- Goes against terms of Treaty of Versailles
- Expanded army to 1 million
- Reintroduced conscription
- Tension increase and outbreak of war link
- Germany built weapons, army and air force
- Allies put on edge
- Hitler openly defies the Treaty of Versailles without consequences
- Germany built weapons, army and air force
- What Happened?
- Re-militarization of Rhineland
- People in Rhineland weren't protected fro France which is why they welcomed the Nazis.
- Hitler claimed that Germany was under threat from having enemies on west and east
- Troops greeted by civilians who gave them flowers.
- Other countries reactions
- Britain thought Germany had the right to take back the land
- French politicians were busy so they didn't care.
- League concentrated on Mussolini
- Consequences
- Britain and France re-arm
- Pacts signed between countries to protect themselves if Germany attacked.
- Hitler now knows he can ignore the Treaty of Versailles
- Could Hitler have been stopped?
- Army too small to fight
- If he had been stopped Germany would have to pay crippling fines
- Sending men into the Rhineland was a Gamble
- March 1935
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