What actions did Hitler take?

*Note how they unpick the Treaty of Versailles and undermine the League of Nations

• In 1933, he refused to pay any more reparations

• He withdrew from the Disarmament Conference and left the League of Nations

• Germany began re-arming in secret

• In 1934, Hitler attempted the Anschluss with Austria

• In 1935, he re-introduced conscription

• And announced his intention of creating an air force

• He held a massive rearmament rally in Germany

• He also signed the Anglo-German Naval Agreement

• In 1936 Germany re-militarised the Rhineland

• Hitler signed the Rome-Berlin Axis and the Anti-Comintern Pact

• In 1937, German forces, the Condor Legion, fought in the Spanish Civil War

• In 1938 Hitler achieved Anschluss

• He also took control of the Sudetenland

• In 1939 Germany invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia

• And then invaded Poland