HIST 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Four Year Plan, Bolsheviks, Lebensraum
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240,000 and could mobilise another million; czechoslovakia 110,000, Versailles term after another; 1935 the saar plebiscite (over 90% wanted a return to germany; march 16th 1935 universal conscription was reintroduced: may 1935 blomberg ordered a study for an attack on czechoslovakia the. Until december 1937 no plans were made to invade czechoslovakia. In 1935 france russia and czechoslovakia signed a military agreement against. In 1935 italy attacked ethiopia and the league applied sanctions in october, but they were lifted a month later showed the weakness of the league of nations. In 1936 hitler tested the french strength/will and sent a battalion of troops into the demilitarised rhineland. Spanish civil war broke out in 1936 and lasted until 1939; hitler would help out later; the ussr was also engaged and took most of the spanish gold reserves back to. In 1936 hitler decided to speed up war preparations; britain was rearming secretly,
