History · GCSE · The 20th-Century World
The Rhineland, the Axis and the Anschluss
The Rhineland, the Axis and the AnschlussFree13:42Heddy Score 3 of 7, below the standard
What you need to know
- Hitler became Chancellor in January 1933 and, within two months, the Enabling Act gave him dictatorial power.
- He broke the Treaty of Versailles by remilitarising the Rhineland in 1936 and taking over Austria in 1938, while Britain and France did nothing.
- At Munich in 1938, Britain and France agreed to give him the Sudetenland without asking Czechoslovakia, but he took the rest of the country six months later.
- The Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 1939 secretly divided Poland, clearing the way for the German invasion on 1 September.
- Britain and France declared war on Germany after the invasion of Poland.
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A brisk, map-led run through the steps from Hitler's rise to the invasion of Poland that makes appeasement easy to follow.
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