The End of the League of Nations
- League does not respond - Italy invades
- Economic sanctions threatened by League
- Hoare-Laval plan gives most of Ethiopia to Italy if fighting stopped
- Plan undermines the league
- People lose interest - Mussolini completes conquest
- Signals end of the league (still exists until 1945)
Germany Rearms - Militarizes the Rhineland
- 1935 Hitler introduces conscription in Germany
- France, Britain and Italy form the Stresa front to condemn Hitler’s actions
- 1935 Mussolini signs naval agreement with Hitler
- March 1936 Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland (Breaking the Locarno Pact)
Anchluss, 1938
- Versailles forbade a unification of Germany and Austria
- 1934 Dolfuss affair (Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor)
- 1938 Hitler called on new Chancellor Schuschnigg to resign
- Leader of Austria Nazi party Seyss-Inquart becomes new Chancellor
- March 1938 German troops roll into Austria
- “Plebiscite” is held -99.75% vote in favour of unification
The Appeasers’ reaction
•British do nothing and warn Schuschnigg not to cause trouble
•The French won’t do anything without the British •Italy was the only objection, but Mussolini gave his approval. •Hitler to Mussolini, “Never, never, forget this, no matter what happened.”
•The French won’t do anything without the British •Italy was the only objection, but Mussolini gave his approval. •Hitler to Mussolini, “Never, never, forget this, no matter what happened.”
In 1935 Hitler introduces conscription in Germany to help in Militarizes the Rhineland, which broke the Locarno Pact.