german rearmament

• german rearmament

  oct 1933 - walked out of disarmament conference

  army grew from 100,000 to 3.7 million from 1933-39

  finance minister schacht secretly financed military until 1935 when hitler announced he was breaking tov terms

  US and its firms helped germany rearm

  br + fr could not challenge so they rearmed too
• anglo-german naval agreement


  allowed germany to have a fleet 35% the size of the royal navy.

  allowed germany to have 45% of the number of british submarines.

  this guaranteed british naval supremacy.

  the anglo-german naval agreement broke the terms of the tov by allowing germany to have more ships than agreed. It showed that britain was more concerned with protecting itself than upholding the tov. It also undermined the stresa front which was an effort to try and limit hitler's growing power.
• rhineland remilitarisation march 1936


  1935 franco-soviet pact made germany act in self defense as they believed them being surrounded was similar to ww1

  22,000 people in the region, poorly equipped and not ready

  br and fr could not come up with a response and the crowd cheered the nazis in

  hitler wanted this region as without it he felt germany was vulnerable to invasion

  hitler had offered 25 yrs of peace pact on the same day, caused british to believe germany did not want war
• reasons for failure to stop rhineland remilitarisation

  france preoccupied with political tensions during election and economic challenges
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  france did not want to start a war without the full support of international allies such as britain which was pursuing the policy of appeasement

  did not want to start war - still remembered losses in ww1

  british people now saw tov as unjust and thought it was right for germany to take the land back

  rhineland deemed insignificant ''germany's back garden'', was only rearming own part of country