Rhineland remilitarisation

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Hugo

Cards (6)

  • in 1936 Hitler moved his troops into the Rhineland
  • France and the USSR had signed a treaty against Hitler and Hitler said this was threatening
  • Hitler knew that Britain thought he had the right to put his troops in the Rhineland
  • The attention of the League of Nations was on the Abyssinian Crisis and so Hitler moved his troops into the Rhineland at the same time
  • no french politician wanted to be the one to plunge France into war with Germany
  • The French didn't know how weak Germany was