CORE CONTENT: Unit 3

Hitler began increasing Germany's military by huge percents
Increases:

+Warships+- 1932: 30 ships
1939: 95 ships

+Aircraft+- 1932: 36 planes
1939: 8,250 planes

+Soldiers+- 1932: 100,000 people
1939: 950,000 people

The League of Nations held the promised plebiscite for people to vote on whether their region should return to German rule.

90% of the population voted to return to German rule

Big morale booster for Hitler

The Stresa Pact was signed by France, Britain, and Italy.
Protesting the rearmament in Germany
And commitment to stand united against Germany

Between Nationalists (Fascists) and Republicans (Communists and Socialists)

The League of Nations looked on helplessly

Germany and Japan signed it in 1936
Italy signed in 1937

The aim of the pact was to limit Communist influence around the world: Aimed at the USSR

now called the Axis alliance

Germany re-militarized the Rhineland region.

France refused to act without British support and so Hitler's gamble paid off.

-German speaking section of Czechoslovakia
Hitler wanted to take over the Sudetenland
However the USSR, Britain, and France promised Czechoslovakia support if it came to war.

The Munich Agreement: the League of Nations decided to give Hitler what he wanted.
They didn't consult the Czechs nor did they consult the USSR.

The annexation of Austria into Germany

Schuschnigg held a plebiscite asking the Austrian people if they supported the union
99.75% voted for Anschluss while under the watch of Nazis

They did not trust Hitler after the Munich Agreement
In 1939, Germany troops took over the rest of the country

Between Italy and Germany