Appeasement Flashcards
When was the remilitarisation of the Rhineland?
March 1936
When was the anchluss with Austria?
March 1938
When was the Sudetenland and Munich conference?
September 1938
When was the annexation of czechoslovakia?
March 1939
When was the invasion of Poland?
1st September 1939
When did Britain declare war in Germany?
3rd September 1939
When did Hitler become chancellor?
January 1933
When did Germany withdraw from League of Nations?
1933
When did Germany reintroduce conscription and rearmament?
1935
What was the German army reduced to by the treaty of Versailles by the 1920s?
100,000
How many men were in British armed forces by 1920?
370,000
When was the Anglo German Naval Treaty? What did this do?
1935
Allowed German Navy to grow 35% the size of the British Navy
When was the 10 year rule abandoned in Britain?
1932
How much did Britain spend on defence in 1933
Only £100 million
Compare the size of the German army and the British army
Germans had 1 million soldiers by 1936 but by 1939 Britain only had 897,000 men
How much did Britain spend on defence?
£700 million but this was still less than German spending
