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P1: CS2: German and Italian Expansionism

Paper 1, Case Study 2: German and Italian Expansionism

Events

Mussolini becomes Prime Minister

1922

Soviet Five Year Plan begins

1928

Soviet Union begins mass industrialization in 5Yr Plan, renews this in 1932

Great Depression begins

1929

German unemployemnt at 26%

1932

Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

January 1933

Mussolini consollidates power

1933

Mussolini becomes minister of war, air, navy, interior and foreign affairs as well as prime minister

Gleichchaltung begins

March 1933

New Plan for Germany's economy initiated

1934

Polish-German Non-Aggression Pact

January 1934

Soviet Union joins League of Nations

1934

German attempt to annex Austria prevented by Italy

July 1934

Saar Plebiscite

January 1935

Germany announces rearmament

March 1935

Stresa Front formed

April 1935

Stresa Front formed to ensure Germany's diplomatic isolation

Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Alliance

May 1935

Anglo-German Naval Treaty

June 1935

Italy invades Abyssinia

October 1935

League of Nations imposes economic sactions on Italy

October 1935

Italy helps Nationalists

1936 - 1939

Italy commits troops and weapons to helping Nationalists

Spanish Civil War

1936 - 1939

Italy commits troops and weapons to help Nationalists

Germany militarizes the Rhineland

March 1936

Italy leaves League of Nations

May 1936

Four Year Plan for Germany's economy

September 1936

Rome-Berlin Axis

October 1936

Anti-Comintern Pact

November 1936

Anti-Comintern Pact agreed by Germany and Japan

Germany annexes Austria

March 1938

Germany annexes Austria, confirmed by April plebiscite

Munich Agreement

September 1938

Munich Agreement grants the Sudeten areas of Czechoslovakia to Germany

Negotiations for the Danzig's return

October 1938

Germany requests negotiations for the return of Danzig

Poland seizes part of Czechslovakia

October 1938

Hungary seizes large areas of Czechoslovakia

November 1938

Hungary seizes large areas of Czechoslovakia, mostly from autonomous Slovakia

Anglo-French military alliance

February 1939

Britain pledges to defend Poland's borders

March 1939

Memel returned to Germany from Lithuania

March 1939

Rump of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany

March 1939

Slovakia made independent

March 1939

Italy annexes Albania

April 1939

Pact of Steel

May 1939

Pact of Steel alliance signed by Italy and Germany

Nazi-Soviet Pact

August 23, 1939

Anglo-Polish formal military alliance

August 25, 1939

Italy released from Pact of Steel obligations

August 25, 1939

Germany invades Poland

September 1 1939

Britain and France declare war on Germany

September 3 1939

World War II begins