During the 1930's Italy and Germany followed a policy of aggressive territorial expansion; they invaded weak lands that could be taken over easily. The dictatorships (led by Hitler in Germany, and Mussolini in Italy) knew exactly what their goals were, to form the empire they didn't achieve during the Colonial Period. In 1935 Italian troops invaded Ethiopia. Italy's army was well equipped and had gained total control of the country in May 1936. In Germany, Hitler started violating the Treaty of Versailles soon after he took power; he began to build up Germany's armed forces. In 1936, Hitler sent troops in to the Rhineland, a region of Germany along the banks of the Rhine River, which was supposed to be kept free of troops. In 1938, German soldiers marched into Austria and united it to Germany. These acts of aggressions were
The United Kingdom and France were unwilling to risk another war so soon after World War I. The two powers knew they would bear the burden of any fighting. Any action taken by the French or the British would probably trigger off a Second World War. In 1938 a conference was held in Munich. In attempt to keep peace, Great Britain and France agreed to all the demands of the aggressors, and soon after France announced that it would neither honor its alliance with Czechoslovakia nor provide any assistance. The stapes taken by France and Great Britain to keep world peace made Hitler and Mussolini think that they were invincible and they could pretty much do anything they pleased to do. While this is how it seemed, Great Britain and France were only trying to keep world peace, even if it meant agreeing with the atrocities of the di
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