Dates & Events (German Expansion)

January 1933

Hitler Chancellor

February 1933

Introduction rearmament programme

October 1933

Leaves disarmament conference + intention to withdraw League of Nations

January 1934

Germany signs non-aggression pact Poland

1935

Hitler introduces conscription

January 1935

Saar Plebiscite

March 1935

Stresa Agreement

June 1935

Anglo-German Naval Treaty, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia

March 1936

Germany remilitarization Rhineland

July 1936

Hitler military support to Franco’s nationalists (Spain)

August 1936

Four Year Plan

November 1936

Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan, Rome-Berlin Axis

November 1937

Hossbach Memorandum

1938

The May Crisis (Sudeten Crisis)

15 September 1938

Berchtesgaden - Sudeten German areas transferred to Germany agreed

22-23 September 1938

Godesberg - Cham. flew to Hitler, who was angry as he wanted an excuse to invade Czechso. Hitler: ‘demands of huns. and poles should be met + german troops allowed to occupy Sudetenland 28 Sept.’ Czechs rejected, french backed czechs.

29 September 1938

Munich - Mussolini stepped in as mediator and presented a plan written by Hitler

21 October 1938

Hitler gave orders for the liquidation of Czechoslovakia

15 March 1939

German troops occupy rest of Czechoslovakia

16 March 1939

Bohemia and Moravia declared a protectorate of Germany

1 September 1939

Poland invaded

7 April 1939

Mussolini invasion of Albania

March 11–13, 1938

Anschluss

23-24 August 1939

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

May 1939

Pact of Steel