Between World Wars – End of the Long Armistice Spanish Civil War Sino-Japanese War The Axis and the Anschluss Czech Crisis Berchtesgaden and Bad Godesberg Munich End of Appeasement Nazi-Soviet Pact Final Crisis
End of the Long Armistice
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Jan 252012
Spanish Civil War
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Jan 252012
Hardly were the Ethiopian and Rhineland crises out of mind when a new storm swept the stage. In Spanish Moroccg on July 17, 1936, so-called Nationalists launched a revolution against the Popular Front government of the five-year old Spanish Republic (garrisons in Spain proper rose the next day). Championing ideas much like those of the [...]
Sino-Japanese War
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Jan 252012
As the Spanish Civil War rounded out its first year, a crisis arose in another part of the globe. Ever since they had created the satellite state of Manchukuo, the Japanese had been discussing further steps toward national expansion. Moderate factions had advocated the use of peaceful means, particularly the application of economic pressure to [...]
The Axis and the Anschluss
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Jan 252012
Even before the Sino-Japanese War the French and British had begun to take some action. Military authorities in both countries estimated (probably erroneously) that the Germans had a long lead in preparations for war. To bring themselves abreast the French decided in October 1936 to undertake a four-year rearmament program, and the British followed their [...]
Czech Crisis
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Jan 252012
It was clear to all the world that Czechoslovakia was now in peril. German garrisons ringed its western frontiers, and the German press and radio thundered about persecution suffered by the German minority there. In the Sudetenland, where most of this minority resided, a constant clamor was maintained by Nazi sympathizers whose leaders plainly took [...]
Berchtesgaden and Bad Godesberg
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Jan 252012
To avert the impending crisis, Chamberlain resolved to meet face to face with Hitler. Although he was, 69 years old and had never been in an airplane before, he telegraphed the German dictator offering to fly over at once, and on September 15, Hitler met him at Berchtesgaden. There the prime minister asked if Germany [...]
Munich
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Jan 252012
For the next few days, Europe seemed on the verge of war. The Czechs mobilized. Daladier and Bonnet came again to London, where they were assured more or less definitively of British support. They in turn promised backing to the Czechs. On September 26, Hitler spoke at the Sportspalast in Berlin, proclaiming in violent language [...]
End of Appeasement
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Jan 252012
Hitler, of course, was not satisfied with the Munich settlement. On October 21, only three weeks after signing the accord, he advised his generals that one of their next tasks would be “liquidation of the remainder of Czechoslovakia.” Another was the seizure of Memel (Klaipeda) , a port on the Baltic Sea which had been [...]
Nazi-Soviet Pact
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Jan 252012
The Western powers were still desirous of having the USSR on their side. All hope of attaching Italy to their cause had disappeared. On January 4, Mussolini had told Hitler that he was ready to negotiate a comprehensive alliance. Although this so-called Pact of Steel, pledging each nation to join the other immediately in war, [...]
Final Crisis
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Jan 252012
On April 3, Hitler had directed his generals to prepare a plan of campaign against Poland, with September 1 as its probable starting date. On May 23, in a conference with topranking officers, he disclosed that his intention was to use the Danzig question as a pretext and “to attack Poland at the first suitable [...]