H&m

Dictatorship in Europe

By Wizvid

  • March on Rome

  • German-Polish Non aggression Pact

  • German Rearmament

    German Rearmament
    As soon as Hitler seizes power.
    July- Independent Luftwaffe created
    18 Dec- defense ministry unveils plans to create 300,000 men army
    July 1934- July programme- construction of 17,000 planes
    March 1935- conscription reintroduced
    Naval plan for Moderate-sized fleet by 1949

  • Attempted Nazi Coup in Austria

    Hitler wanted to control Austria, Mussolini rejected this idea and so hitler stage a coup which was hugely unsuccessful. Mussolini then draws troops to the Brenner front-he wants to keep Austria as a buffer state. Deteriorates Italo-German relations.

  • Rome agreement

    Italy was scared of hitler seeing the attempted nazi coup in vienna and sought out an alliance with france

  • Stresa Conference

    Stresa Conference
    Br Fr and It meet at Stresa t discuss forming a common front against Germany due to german rearmament. All condemned rearmament and resolved to maintain peace.
    Hitler quickly reassure the powers of his peaceful intentions, proposing a series of non-aggression pacts with Germany's neighbours and promised to observe Locarno and accpet an overall limitation on armaments and offered Britain to limiting the German fleet to 35% of the total strength of the Royal Navy.

  • Franco-soviet treaty of mutual assistance

  • Abyssinian Crisis: Mussolini wants to build empire in North Africa and this also distracts his people from economic struggle caused by the great depression.

    Abyssinian Crisis: Mussolini wants to build empire in North Africa and this also distracts his people from economic struggle caused by the great depression.
    Abyssinia provides land for italian settlers and connects Eritrea with Somaliland and essentially places control of the horn of Africa on Italy
    French foreign Minister Laval had verbally promised a free hand to Mussolini.
    Br wanted to avert a crisis by coming to an agreement without its formal annexation
    Compromise hard to reach as Br facing pressure from public to side with the League in France opinion split
    Both feared drawing Mussolini into Hitlers arms
    Mussolini by 1936 has taken Abyssinia

  • Anti-Comintern Pact

    Japan-Germany pact joined by Italy in 1937
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    Arms Race: Ger

    Four year plan to get ready for war. Dr Schacht opposes so hitler appoints Goring to lead it.
    Aug 1939 Luftwaffe had 4000 frontline aircraft and army 2,750,000 men strong.
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    Arms Race: Britain

    Construction of bomber strike air force. Expenditure had quadrupled. And government authorised aircraft production to the limit regardless of the cost.
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    Arms Race: France

    franc devalued three times to fund rearmament. Military expenditure x6

  • Remilitarisation of the rhineland

    abyssinian crisis provided him with the right excuse
    they were at first few in number and lightly equipped to reassure france. France didn't go to war over this as it lacked british support

  • October Protocols: Rome-Berlin Axis

    German and Italy ever so close as Germany quickly recognised the King of Italy as emperor of Abyssinia whilst britain didn't. Both Italya and Germany helped block a revision of Locarno treaty by british and undoubtedly the spanish civil war had also brought them closer. Rome also conceded to Austria being set up as a satellite state of Germany.

  • Hossbach Memorandum

    Meeting where Hitler expresses his aims of Lebensraum in europe by 1943-45. The memorandum is one of his adjutants notes of that meeeting

  • Anschluss

    schuschnigg austrian chancellor, called for a meeting with Hitler. He proposed a referendum (14th march) for his people to vote on the german question on the 12 march Hitler order his army to occupy Austria and decided to incorporate Austria into the Reich. set the way for invasion of czechoslovakia

  • Sudenten Crisis: Hitler regarded it as a threat due to numerous alliances with USSR and France. The way to bring about the destruction of Czech state was though an uprising from the sudeten germans (3 million germans, 2 million slovaks in Czechoslovakia)

    Hitler instructed the german sudeten leader Konrad Henlein to keep making demands for concessions which the prague gov could not grant if it wanted to preserve unity in czechoslovakia. Chamberlain negotiates with Hitler Munich (30 sept 1938) Agreement to cede Sudetenland. Hitler finally is able to occupy prague in March 1939 when Czechs moved into Slovakia to crush local demands for independence.

  • Pact of Steel

  • Nazi-soviet pact

  • Aircraft production in Ger, Br, Fr

    Br: 1940-15,000 1935-1,140
    Ger: 1940-10,247 1935-3,183
    Fr: 1940-2,113 1935-785