Versailles Treaty--stipulations that Hitler promised to overturn: Military restrictions: ---100,000 troops ---Limited navy ---No submarines ---No air force ---No tanks ---No conscription (draft)  

Territorial restrictions/changes: ---Demilitarized Rhineland ---Polish Corridor to the sea ---Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia ---Loss of colonies

Economic reparations/indemnity: ---approx. $33 billion owed to Britain, France, and Belgium

Collective Psychological impact: ---Humiliation of German people ---Article 231 "The Guilt Clause" ---Injustice

Efforts to secure collective security: ---1921 France signs an alliance with Poland ---1922 The "Little Entente" included Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia ---1924 France signs an alliance with Czechoslovakia ---1925 Locarno Pact

The Impact of the Depression on Democracies: ---France --Loss of Anglo-American guarantee --Political divisiveness --Fear of German rearmament --Defense/Maginot Line --Treaties with Czechoslovakia and Russia --Encircle Germany --Britain --Costs of foreign entanglements? --Isolationist policy renewed --Protect naval viability/strategies --Somewhat revisionist in nature/appeasement??

Disarmament, political maneuvering, and the League of Nations: ---1932-1934 Disarmament Talks ---Japan withdraws from the league in February 1933 ---Germany leaves both in October 1933 (read Bullock 178) ---1934 Germany sign non-aggression pact with Poland ---1934 Failed Anschluss with Austria ---1935 March/April Announcement of German Luftwaffe (air force) and conscription ---1935 Creation of the "Stresa Front" Italy, France, and Britain ---1935 Additional alliances created by perceived German aggression ---France and Soviet Russia/ Czechoslovakia and Soviet Russia

The Break-up of the "Stresa Front" --- June 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement ---Details??? --- October 1935 Italy's invasion of Abyssinia

Invasion of the Rhineland March 1936: ---Hitler's gamble on French timidity ---Britain's support??? ---Bullock 191-read

Spanish Civil War 1936-39: ---Nationalists: Land Owners, Church, Army----Franco ---Republicans: Anarchists, Communists, Socialists, Democratic Republicans ---Germany-- supports the Nationalists--uses it to test new military material ---Italy--- supports the Nationalists--contributes troops and material to boost prestige ---Soviet Union---provides some support to Republic--lengthen war???? ---Great Britain and France---Did not take sides--why????

British policy of Appeasement 1937-1939: ---Neville Chamberlain's policy ---Believed all Hitler wanted was to unite all German-speaking people ---Churchill disagreed and was right ---Bullock 203-205 read

Anschluss with Austria March 1938: ---Union of Germany with Austria ---Schuschnigg/Seyss-Inguart ---Schuschnigg wants a vote of the Austrian people/German soldiers march in.

Munich Crisis and Agreement September 1938: ---Hitler wants the Sudetenland lost in the Treaty of St. Germain (Austria) ---Benes wants French help/ that's a big NO ---Munich Agreement: ---Daladier (FR.), Chamberlain (B), Mussolini (IT.), and Hitler (G) meet ---Hitler given the Sudetenland, Poland and Hungary given borderlands ---Chamberlain "Peace in our time." ---Hitler "That piece of paper means nothing!"