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The Road to War
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Rearmament
1935
Hitler announces that Germany will no longer abide in the Versailles restrictions on the military:
- Peacetime conscription set at 600,000
- Establishing air force
- Anglo-German Naval Agreement: Germany's navy was set at 35% of Britain's
International response:
Leaders of Britain, France and Italy convened in Stresa
- denounced Germany's plans for rearmament
- promised to work together and form the Stresa front, however, this was undermined by the three powers' differing goals and military infeasibility to act due to the Great Depression
- Hitler assured the three powers there were no aggressive intentions and promised to recognise the permanent borders with western states in tandem with the Locarno treaties
- Presented the rearmament initiative as reasonable: merely for national security, and for peaceful intentions. He assured that Germany would accept militarily limitations if other countries did the same.
Britain: German rearmament alarmed Britain, learning to their own rearmament on a large scale. It would take many years to catch up to the military power of Germany
France: was already the strongest military power in Europe, more desperate for alliance- turned to the Soviet Union
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The Pact of Steel
Closer ties with Italy started when Britain and France condemned the Abyssinian invasion, and placed an embargo on Italy
- 1936: Rome-Berlin Axis formed: Mussolini stopped opposing Anschluss
- 1939: Pact of Steel
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