Hitler's Reversals of the Treaty

  • January 8, 1918

    January 8, 1918
    Congress rejects Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points.
  • November 11, 1918

    November 11, 1918
    Germany surrenders to the Allied powers, armistice signed to stop the war.
  • June 28, 1919

    June 28, 1919
    The Treaty of Versailles officially ends World War I.
  • January 30, 1933

    January 30, 1933
    Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany.
  • 1934

    1934
    Hitler increases size of the army, builds warships and creates an air force.
  • 1936

    1936
    German troops entered the Rhineland.
  • 1936

    1936
    Hitler forms alliances with Japan and Italy
  • May 1937

    May 1937
    Neville Chamberlain, new Prime Minister of Great Britain, accepts Hitler’s demands to prevent another war.
  • March 1938

    March 1938
    German troops march into Austria for Anschluss or union with Germany. 99% of Austrians accepted.
  • September 1938

    September 1938
    Neville Chamberlain and Hitler signed the Munich agreement giving Hitler the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia provided that he promised not to invade the rest of Czechoslovakia.
  • September 1st, 1939

    September 1st, 1939
    German troops invade Poland, starting World War II.
  • March 1939

    March 1939
    Hitler and his army invaded the rest Czechoslovakia.