Key Question 7 : What factors led to the outbreak of war ...

• October 1933


  Hitler withdraws Germany from the League of Nations
• January 1934


  Non-aggression pact between Germany and Poland
• March 1935


  Hitler announce re-armament, begins conscription
• January 1935


  Saarland is returned Germany after a plebiscite
• November 1936


  Anti-Comintern Pact between Germany, Italy and Japan
• March 1936


  Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
• March 1938


  Anschluss with Austria
• September 1938


  Germany takes the Sudetenland
• March 1939


  Germany takes over Czechoslovakia
• May 1939


  Pact of Steel between Germany and Italy
• August 1939


  Nazi Soviet Pact between Germany and the USSR
• September 1939


  Germany and the USSR invade Poland