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Nazi aggression in the 1930s

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1933: Withdrew from League of Nations
1935: Announced rearmament in violation of Versailles
1936: Remilitarized the Rhineland (in violation of Versailles)
1936-1939: Supported Franco's fascists in the Spanish Civil War alongside Italy
1938 (March): Anschluss (annexation) of Austria into the Third Reich
1938 (September): Munich Agreement permitted German annexation of Sudetenland (German-speaking border regions of Czechoslovakia)
1939 (March): Occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia, breaking Munich promises
1939 (August): Nazi-Soviet Pact (also called the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) with the USSR. Public agreement was a non-aggression pact; secret protocols divided Eastern Europe between Germany and the USSR.
1939 (September 1): Invaded Poland. World War II began.