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Germany's Rearmement
Germany’s rearmament broke the treaty of versailles the day the treaty of versailles was confirmed and was keep a secret.
The rearmament of Germany became fairly large and known by 1933 when the Nazi party was voted into power and Carl von Ossietzky made a stand telling the people about the secret operations of military expansion in 1931.
Carl von Ossietzky was awarded a nobel peace prize in 1935 for his actions but was shortly sentenced to jail for 227 days where he was tortured until his dea -
Manchurian Incident
On september 18 1931 japanese military staged an event on themselves so they could invade Manchurian China
Lt. Suemori Kawamoto detonated a small amount of dynamite close to a Japanese rail line, the explosion was so weak it did little to know damage trains passed over the track minutes later
Japan blamed the attack on Chinese descendants and responded with a full on invasion of Manchurian China, once other countries found out this lead to Japan's removal of the League of Nations -
the statute of westminster
We gained the right to self government in 1867 but it wasn’t until December 11 1931 Canada gained the full legal right to autonomy when they signed the Statute of Westminster
It was Canada’s form of the declaration of independance
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Hitler's Chancellorship
On January 30th 1933 President Paul von Hindenburg named Adolf Hitler leader of the Nazi party. In July 1932, the Nazi party won the 230 governmental seats in the election. The Nazi’s and the seconf largest party, the Communists made up over half of Reischstag. -
The Burning of Reichstag:
The burning of Reichstag was an arson attack set on the Reichstag building in Berlin. Home to the German Government.
Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch council communist was found at the scene of the crime and was arrested. He than was sent to trial where he was sentenced to death.
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Germanys annexation of states
The germans first invaded Rhineland March 7 1936, Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia ( october 15 1938) then later all of Czechoslovakia march 16 1939 and they split poland with the soviets September 1-29 1939.
The invasion of Rhineland was there first violation of the treaty of Versailles because rhineland was a demilitarization zone, the treaty was also broken in every other invasion
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German Invasion of Rhineland
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles which was signed in july of 1919. Germans were sent into Rhineland along the Rhine river in western Germany which happened to be a demilitarized zone. -
Italy invasion of Ethiopia
Because of the Italian loss to Ethiopia previously at the battle of Adowa. In 1935 the Italians seeked revenge and aimed their attack to boost national prestige. The battl elasted from Octorber to May with Italy coming out on top in the end of the war occupying Etheopia and taking down the Etheopian Empire. -
Munich Conference
This conference included Britain, France, Italy, and the Western Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia.
- During this meeting all the countries agreed that they would not interfere with Germany’s occupation of western Czechoslovakia including the Soviet Union which had an alliance with Czechoslovakia.
- Hitler believed that a majority of German people were living in western Czechoslovakia and that they should return to their “Homeland”. -
Invasion of Poland
Part of hitler's september campaign, Germany invaded Poland on september 1st to october 6th 1939 with their partners of the Soviet Union to mark the beginning of WW2. Hitler believed that their were too many German people living in Poland and that they should return to their “Homeland’ of germany because they were the dominate country.
