1. 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)

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

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

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

5. Efforts to secure collective security:
France signs an alliance with Poland
The "Little Entente" included Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia
France signs an alliance with Czechoslovakia
Locarno Pact

6. 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??

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

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

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

10. Spanish Civil War :
---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????

11. 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 read

12. 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.

13. 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!"