Lecture Week 8

  • Geneva Disarmament Conference

  • League of Nations

  • non-aggression treaty with Poland  (Jan 26, 1934)

  • Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893 – 1946)

  • Dienststelle Buro Ribbentrop

  • Engelbert Dollfuss

  • Vienna Putsch  (July 25, 1934)

  • Kurt von Schuschnigg

  • Saar Reunion Plebiscite   (Jan 13 1935)

  • Stressa Front  (

  • Hitler’s “Sunday Surprises” 

  • Rhineland Remilitarization March 7, 1936            

  • Spanish Civil War  July 1936

  • Condor Legion

  • International Brigades –

    Mackenzie-Papineau Brigade

  • Guernica by Pablo Picasso 

  • International Brigades – Mackenzie-Papineau Brigade

  • Italy and Germany sign a secret pact.  Germany signs with Japan – the Axis is established

  • Prime Minister Mackenzie-King meets Hitler (

  • Italy and Germany sign official non-aggression pact.   

  • Werner von Bloomberg – Minister of Defense – and Werner von Fritsch – commander and chief – both purged (February 4 1938

  •  Anschluss

  • Sudetenland — Sudeten Germans
  • Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
  • Hitler’s “last territorial demand”
  • Independent Slovakia (March 14, 1939)

  • Czech Reichsprotektorate (March 15, 1939) (Bohemia & Moravia Reichsprotektorate)

  • Hitler Stalin Non-Aggression Pact  (August 23, 1939)

    FURTHER READINGS and SOURCES

Mackenzie-King Diary Entries for Meetings with Goring and Hitler [internet link]  Prime Minister Mackenzie-King Diaries Online – Canada Archives  [internet link]

  Prime Minister Mackenzie-King in Berlin on a private visit –  June 1937

Making friends with Hitler : Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to World War II  Kershaw, Ian  

Penguin Press, 2004.

  Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933-1941:The Road to Global War  Leitz, Christian, Routledge, 2004.

Hitler’s Foreign Policy 1933-1939 : The Road to World War II 

Weinberg, Gerhard L. Enigma, 2004. 

What Hitler Knew : The Battle for Information in Nazi Foreign Policy 

Shore, Zachary  Oxford University Press, 2003.

The Diplomacy of the “New Order” : The Foreign Policy of Japan, Germany and Italy: 1931-1945 

Stam, Arthur  Aspekt, 2003. 

Ribbentrop 

Bloch, Michael  Abacus, 2002. 

The Rise and Rise of the Third Reich : Nazi Foreign Policy 1933-1939 

Haigh, R. H. Sheffield  Hallam University, c2001

The Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion 

Leibovitz, Clement Merlin Press ; c1997.

Germany and Europe, 1919-1939 

Hiden, John   

Longman, 1993.