The Spanish Civil War
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- The Spanish Civil War
- Germany was one of
the most involved countries in the conflict, contributing economic
loans as well as several thousand troops to the Nationalist cause.
- Hitler's involvement
in the Spanish war was consistent with a larger Nazi foreign policy aimed at diverting British and
French attention from Central and Eastern Europe.
- So that he would be unhindered in his plans for eastern expansion.
- Germany also gained the valuable raw materials from Spain that it needed for eastern expansion and the accompanying possibility of war.
- Hitler's involvement
in the Spanish war was consistent with a larger Nazi foreign policy aimed at diverting British and
French attention from Central and Eastern Europe.
- The Spanish Civil War was
a major contributor to the hardening of the division between the democracies
(Britain and France) and the dictatorships (Italy and Germany).
- Italy suffered several military setbacks and it made Italy even more dependent on Germany.
- The Spanish Civil War showed
that Britain and France allowed Hitler to make more dramatic eastern expansion
moves.
- In March 1939, Hitler invaded and annexed the remainder of Czechoslovakia despite agreeing at Munich not to do so.
- 1936, Germany
remilitarized the Rhineland, violating the Locarno Treaty of 1925.
- Hitler this time
had chosen to wait until Britain and France were distracted.
- This was a theme that would be repeated - with Italy's war of conquest in Ethiopia.
- Britain and France were caught off guard, and internal division and fear of war caused them to refrain from action against Germany.
- Hitler this time
had chosen to wait until Britain and France were distracted.
- Democracies looked
weaker than ever.
- Hitler began accelerating the pace of his expansionist policies. This development helped lead to the invasion of Poland in September 1939, which set off World War II.
- Germany was one of
the most involved countries in the conflict, contributing economic
loans as well as several thousand troops to the Nationalist cause.
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