Summary Timeline

1933 
  • Hitler becomes Chancellor (January)
  • Hitler defines German Foreign policy - Gross Deutschland + Lebensraum
  • ​Leaves League of Nations disarmament conference  (February) + Leaves League of Nations (October)
  • Begins secret rearmament of German forces
1934
  • Attempted Anschluss 
1935
  • Saar Plebiscite (Huge propaganda victory)
  • Rearmament Rally - reintroduction of conscription  (March)
  • Anglo-German Naval Agreement 
1936
  • Remilitarisation of the Rhineland (March)
  • Rome-Berlin Axis
  • Spanish Civil War
  • Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan
1937
  • Anti-Comintern Pact - Italy joins
​1938
  • Anschluss (with Austria)
  • Sudetenland Crisis (September)
    • Berchtesgaden
    • Bad Godesberg
    • Munich 
​1939
  • ​Absorption of Czechoslovakian (March)
  • Nazi-Soviet Pact (August)
  • German invasion of Poland (September 1)

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