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The road to WWII
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Invasion of the Rhineland
Hitler sent troops into the Rhineland, This took considerable risks because there was a chance that France would send troops to resist German forces and this would mean war. Hitler sent only four brigades beacuse that was all he has. The first troops into the Rhineland were ordered to retreat if they met with French resistance. -
The conferece between Hitler and Schuschnigg
Schuschnigg visited Hitler for crisis talks in Germany in February 1938. He was bad treated at this meeting. Hitler raved and shouted at him for all the meeting. he demanded that Nazis be allowed to join the Austrian government and be given control of law and order. -
The Plebiscite
Schuschnigg made one attempt to keep Austria independent: he announced that there would be a plebiscite or referendum, in Austria to decide whether Austrians wanted their country to remain independent. -
The invasion of Austria and visit to his birthplace
The German army invaded Austria. Arrests began immediately of enemies of the Nazis. In the city of Vienna alone 76,000 people arrested in the aftermath of the invasion. On 12 March Hitler himself crossed into Austria. He went to his own home town of Linz where he was greeted by cheering crowds -
Schuschnigg´s broadcast
he made a radio broadcast and talked about the difficult situation. The German government gave them an ultimatum: the chancellor has to be nominated by Germany or otherwise German troops will march into Austria. -
hitler´s speech to the people of Linz
Hitler talk about his mission that he had. his proposals were to combat the communism, abolish the treaty of Versailles and League of Nations. -
Hitler meeting with Henlein
Hitler met Henlein to give him instructions. He told the Sudeten leader to keep making demands that the czechoslovak government could not possibly accept. By dragging out the negotiations, Hitler hoped to create a crisis over Czechoslovakia -
France treaty with Czechoslovakia fall down
There was a change of government in France. The new Prime Minister, Daladier, was not keen on the idea of going to war with Germany over Czechoslovakia.
On May 30 Hiler let his generals know that he had decided to "Smash Czechoslovakia by military action in the near future". -
The clash in the relations between the sudeten German and the Czechoslovakia government
Henlein ordered local Nazis to attack Czech and Jewish tergets. As a result of this violence, negotiations between the Sudeten Germans and Prague were broken off. Henlein left Czechoslovakia on 15 September. Hitler was ready to go to war against Czechoslovakia in the summer of 1938 -
The Munich Conference
It began on 29 September. A day later the British and french Prime Ministers agreed with Hitler on the terms of the annexation of the sudetenland. britain and France simply agreed to give Hitler what he wanted. -
Munich agreement
The peace treaties at the end of the First World War had created a new country called Czechoslovakia. In 1938 Britain and France signed the Munich agreement that broke up Czechoslovakia and gave much of it to Germany
