01:790:324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Appeasement, Stresa Front, Hossbach Memorandum
21 Jun 2016
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Nye the rise and fall of collective security (e-res pp. 93-103) Oxford encyclopedic companion to world politics cuban missile crisis e-res. Did not have plans, but had aims. Major goal was destruction of treaty of versailles. October 1933: withdrew from league of nations (locarno treaty) Did not take part of disarmament because france would not disarm. January 1934: hitler signed non-aggression pact with poland. March 1935: hitler adds compulsory military service. Expressly went against the treaty of versailles. Tripled the size of army and built air force. Worried about what would happen to austria due to germany. Austrian nazi party took independent initiative without consulting hitler and unbeknownst to hitler. + july 1934: austrian nazi party assassinated dolfuss. Mussolini (italy) became worried and staged an armed display on the border of. + hitler backs down because germany was only semi-rearmed. + his response showed that hitler was not prepared and was only an opportunist.
