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Reason for WW in europe - Coggle Diagram
Reason for WW in europe
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Diplomatic Appeasement
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trauma-the fresh,horrific memories of ww1 made any compromise preferable to bloodshed
step 1 :The Saar Plebiscite (1935) following the Vesailles treaty. The Saar region holds a vote and overwhelmingly chooses to rejoin germany
step 3: The Anschluss with austria (1938) a direct violation of versailles mussolini now an ally.stood by ,Britain and France issued only weak verbal protests
step 2:Remilitarising the Rhineland (1936) German troops move into the demilitarised zone. Hitler fully expected resistance but faced absolutely none.
Axis alignment
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forging the axis
1936:The Rome-Berlin Axis agreement is signed,permanently linking the two fascist dictarships
1937:The anti-comintern pact is formed between Germany,Italy and japan uniting authoritarian regions with shaered militaristic ideologies
The shift:Mussolini was initially deeply suspicious of Hitler at first however facing British and French criticism over his Abyssinian campaign he found a willing defender in Germany
Impact;by 1938,Germany possesed a vastly strengthened military.Powerful allies and had successfully broken every major terms of vesallies without consequences
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