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The roadto WW II
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Invasion of the Rhineland
in 1936 Hitler defied the Treaty of Versailles. He ordered German troopsto march into the rhineland. Two years later he broke the Treaty again by unting Germany with Austria -
The plebiscite
On 9 March 1938,Schuschnigg announced that he would hold a plebiscite throughout Austria on the following Sunday, 13 March 1938. The question was: "Are you for an independent and social, a Christian, German and united Austria?" A "yes" answer to this question was clearly compatible with the agreement made by the German Government on 11 July 1936, and carried forward at Berchtesgaden on 12 February 1938. More over, for a long while the Nazis had been demanding a plebiscite on the question of Ansc -
The Anschluss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyLSRxKQqao Anschluss, German: “Union”, political union of Austria with Germany, achieved through annexation by Adolf Hitler in 1938. Mooted in 1919 by Austria, Anschluss with Germany remained a hope during 1919–33, after which Hitler’s rise to power made it less attractive. -
The sudeten Germans
Hitler met Helnein on March 28 1938 to give him instructions. He told tge sudeten leader to keep making demands that the Czechoslovak government could not possibly accept. -
The intervetion of British
Hitler let his generals know that he decided to "smash Czechoslovakia by military action in the near future" The Britich and the French were putting pressure on the Czechoslovaks to make concessions. The British sent a politician in July to try to work out a settlement between the two sides. -
war was coming
Hitler was ready to start te war with Czechoslovakia. Most of the leading generals did not agree with Hitler's oppinion, they thought that Britain and France would fight and Germany wasn't redy for war. Henlein ordered local Nazis to attack Czechoslovakia and Jewish targets.henlein left Czech. -
Chamberlain flies to Germany
In September 1938 he turned his attention to the three million Germans living in part of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland. Sudeten Germans began protests and provoked violence from the Czech police. Hitler claimed that 300 Sudeten Germans had been killed. This was not actually the case, but Hitler used it as an excuse to place German troops along the Czech border. -
The War between Britain and Germany
The War between Britain and Germany was aproaching, that's way Britain was getting ready. Chamberlain wanted Hitler to find a peaceful solution, but he was denied. -
Munich Conference
The Munich Conference was a conference that was held in the City of Munich when Hitler demanded part of the Czechoslovakia. In attendance during that meeting were the leaders of France Italy and the Great Britain. The conference was held in the year 1938 to try to make Hitler drop his stand on acquiring part of the Czechoslovakian republic.
