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1935-Conscription in Germany
1935-Italy invades Ethiopia
1935-Jews are persecuted
1936 - Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland
1936 Anti-Comintern Pact-Japan and Hitler
1936- Rome-Berlin Axis
1936-Spanish Civil War
Axis Powers
• Mussolini referred to Italy and Germany as being the most
influential countries in Europe and that all the rest of Europe
would revolve around this "axis".
• Rome-Berlin treaty
1935-1937
• FDR responded to Hitler and Japan
• Asked for $1.1 billion for military needs
• Met with Neutrality Acts
• Senator Gerald Nye
• When the President declares there is a war
• No American can sail on a belligerent ship
• America can not sell munitions to a belligerent nation
• America can not make loans to belligerents
Spanish Civil War
• General Francisco Franco
• Tried to take over the government
• War
• Neutrality laws went into affect
• Schoolroom for Hitler’s new weapons
Annexes Austria
• March 1938 - Hitler annexes the independent nation-state of
Austria to the German Reich
Sudetenland
• September 1938 - Hitler threatens to annex the Sudetenland
• Meet in Munich
• Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier, and Chamberlain
• Munich Agreement- promises to respect the territorial integrity
of Czechoslovakia minus the Sudetenland
• “Peace in our time”
• Scrap of paper
• Appeasement at Munich
Hitler Takes Czechoslovakia
• March 1939 - Hitler casually violates the Munich Agreement by
invading the rest of Czechoslovakia
Let’s free East Prussia
• Nazi-Soviet Pact
• Enabled Germany to attack Poland on September 1, 1939,
without fear of Soviet intervention
• Divided eastern Europe into Soviet and German spheres of
interest
• Hitler saw this as necessary ,but temporary.
Blitzkrieg
• Sept, 1939-Blitzkrieg through Poland
Utter Defeat of Poland
• Killing Polish leaders was the first step
• University professor, artists, writers, politicians, and many
Catholic priests
• Poles, including Jews, were imprisoned in concentration camps.
Go after the kids!
• “Kidnapped" as many as 50,000 "Aryan-looking" Polish children
from their parents and took them to Germany to be adopted by
German families
• Many of these children were later rejected
• Sent to special children's camps where some died of
starvation, lethal injection, and disease
Slave laborers in Germany
World War II
• Neutral
Phony War
• Marked by no military operations in Europe
• Hitler was building up forces