HIS 102 1st Edition Lecture 35 Outline of Last Lecture I Peaceful interlude Weimar 1924 29 II Great Depression crisis and paralysis III Why the Nazi s IV Hitler consolidates power Outline of Current Lecture I Rearming Breaching Versailles Military Limits A Rebirth of Germany s air force B Reinstates conscription 1 Rebuild army of 36 divisions half a million soldiers C Nobody stops Hitler even though he is going against the treaties II Reoccupying the Rhineland Breaching Versailles Territorial Provisions A March 7 1936 Germany sends 10 000 soldiers into the Rhineland B Going against treaties again III Fascist Italy and Ethiopia Failure of the League of Nations A Border incident Mussolini accused Ethiopia of aggression 1 Mussolini demanded reparations 2 King of Ethiopia went in front of League of Nations to plead for protection under the treaty 3 Mussolini invades Ethiopia i Use gas ii Use carbon bombing iii Falls by May of 1936 B As a result the League of Nations is badly discredited IV Spanish Civil War A Polarized Europe A Monarchy falls B Competing political factions C March 1936 Francisco Franco commander of Army invades Spain from Morocco to overthrow the Republic 1 Allied with the Falange party in Spain fascists 2 Gripped by Civil War 3 Western democracies don t come to the aid of Spain These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute V VI VII 4 Franco gains substantial assistance i Hitler and Mussolini send soldiers and materials 5 Madrid falls 1939 6 Over 1 million people killed in war Anschluss Austria s Annexation A Not allowed to unify with Germany B Economy is bad C Founded as a republic but experienced deep political divisions i As a result civil war ii Republic defeated and dictator takes over i Adolph Dollfuss ii Schussnigg takes over after Dollfuss murdered D Let the Austrian people decide 1 Become a part of Germany 2 Remain a free people 3 This does not go over well with Hitler i Hitler demands Schussnigg s resignation and replaces him with an Austrian Nazi ii Austria is annexed into the Third Reich Sudeten Crisis Appeasing Hitler A Munich Conference 1 Hitler Mussolini Chamberlain Daladier 2 Czech s are missing from conference 3 Conference to decide fate of Czechoslovakia 4 Given to Hitler Last Acts A Dismantling Czechoslovakia B Nazi Soviet Pact 1 August 23 1939 Molotov Rippentropp i Nonaggression pact to divide up Europe later on ii 8 days later Hitler invades Poland
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