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made by mingxuan (3C) 6

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made by mingxuan

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Katie Bennett, Samprit Karra, and Sarah Powell

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on August 23, 1939. Soviet Union signed the non- aggression pact with Germany. The purpose was so that no military action could be taken against each other for the next 10 years. The Pact  also had a secret agreement to later divide eastern europe between themselves.

non agression agreement below

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Hitler used this opportunity to test out his new army and divert attention of Britain and France away from his plans to invade Eastern Europe. This increased Hitler's views on Britain and france being weak.

picture of involvement below

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Hitler encouraged austrians to push for merge. The chancellor did call for a plebiscute on 13 march 1938 but was interupted by Hitler half way and the majority wanted merge.

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Anglo Germany Naval Agreement, allowed Germany to have a larger army as Britain favored appeasement. In the Treaty of Versallies, it is said that Germany could only own 6 warships and no submarines, but the agreement made it so that Germany could have one-third tonnage of surface fleet Britain owns and same amount of submarines.

Munich agreement- Chamberlain thought Hitler was a man to be reasoned with and gave him a part of Czehoslavia as to stop hitler for demanding, but hitler later invaded and  took over the entire country.

Lack of action against Hitler- Nothing was done when Hitler remilitarised Rhineland, involved in Civil war and anschluss with austria.

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Hitler made i compulsory for boys to join the army after reaching a certain age, rebuilding an army.

Hitler also rearmed weapons etc

When Hitler did conscription and rearmament, Pacifist Britain only made verbal protest yet they did not impose sanctuary

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Hitler had a vision and it was to create a greater Germany by establishing an Aryan race and suitable living space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mALcKVc9Y4M

Hitler withdrawed himself from the League of Nations (LON) and geneva disarmament. He proposed that France either demilitarise to the same state as them or Germany rearm to be like France, France rejected Hitler's request and Hitler used that as an excused to feeling threatened and withdrawled.

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Failure of disarmament ;

disarmament was an effective step to world peace but the league failed to do so, as they did not have indivisual European powers and not dependant by powerful nations like USA who act on their own, this meant powerful countries could still start war with their military capacity yet they could do nothing to stop the conflict

Though there were attempts at disarmament, many of them were failures.

For example,

World Disarmament Conference (1932-1934); Germany insist on match other powers to armament level, France refused, Britain and USA didn’t want to follow France request. Germany withdrew from League

League Commission to prepare for World Disarmament Conference(1926); Britain & France did not cooperate

Abyssinian Crisis;

When Abyssinia had common borders with British colonies , its closer to Europe. When Italy invaded Abyssinia in 1935 due to being allies, Britain & France failed to impose sanctions. Hence , making Mussolini and Hitler’s ambition bolder.