1. The Drift to War in Europe
3rd Year History
The Drift to War in Europe

2. Hitler’s aims: Unite all German speakers Lebensraum
Destroy Treaty of Versailles
Punish Jews
Destroy Communism

3. 1934-35 1934 people of the Saar voted to rejoin Germany
1934 Mussolini rushed troops to prevent Anschluss
1935 An agreement with GB on a limit to the size of the navy but not on submarines.

4. 1936 1936 Rhineland remilitarised. A gamble.
1936 Rome-Berlin Axis. Friendship with Italy because:
Hitler backed invasion of Abyssinia
Co-operation in the Spanish Civil War

5. 1938 1938 Anschluss referendum. Austria and Germany United Sudetenland
1938 Munich Conference. Chamberlain. Appeasement

6. 1939 1939 rest of Czechoslovakia invaded.
1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact. (10 year non-aggression, divide Poland)
31 August 1939 invasion of Poland