German aggression

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It all started when Hitler ordered Germany to start rebuilding its army shortly after he came to power. The rearming of Germany began in 1933 and started going fast in 1936 as a part of Hitler plan to start a war. He restores most of the things and set them back right. His basic plan was to after his army is ready to annex central Europe and create a German empire. Germany started its invading by moving into the Rhineland and occupying it in 1936. In 1938 the German army invaded Austria and in 1939, Czechoslovakia. This is how they started and slowly invading countries to build a German empire. Other countries were worried mostly European but there was no war yet so nothing could have happen. Hitler was doing whatever he wanted without any fear. He was not anyone stop him and he showed his power and was scaring anyone who objected with him. This is how the German aggression started which would lead to a war called “World War II”. After all that Hitler formed an alliance with the soviet army and they signed the Non-Aggression Pact with Stalin on two things. First was they would not attack each other and second both of them would invade Poland from two different sides and divide it between them. Stalin motive was to recover and get back the Russian land that he lost in World War 1 and Hitler was to recover the German territory they lost called Danzig corridor. “Danzig was an important port city on the Baltic; the fifty-mile-wide Danzig Corridor provided overland access to it. The Versailles Treaty had declared Danzig a free city and had given the corridor to Poland, thus separating East Prussia geographically from the rest of Germany. Hitler intended to take over the corridor and the port, thus reuniting the German state into one l... ... middle of paper ... ...lor Engelbert Dollfuss. A Nazi squad shot and killed Dollfuss, but the coup attempt was badly managed. Benito Mussolini’s movement of Italian troops to the Austrian border forced Hitler to back away from supporting his Austrian partners.” As this happened he annexed Austria and kept expanding. The picture was cleared that he was trying to overtake Europe and build a German Empire. As Hitler signed a non-aggression pact with soviet army they attacked and captured Poland. This led to Britain and France going to war against Germany because they fell threatened that Germany was overtaking east of Europe and there had to be done something about it. All this led to World War II. It was known more for Hitler war because Germany had a lot part in it but at the end of the war Germany has no chance of winning the war so Hitler suicides and Germany surrender on May 8, 1945.

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