Anschluss with Austria in 1938

With recent successes to boost him Hitler turned his attention to his homeland of Austria. The Austrian people were mainly German and and in Mein Kampf Hitler had made it clear that he felt that the two states belonged together as one German nation. This political union is known as Anschluss.

Lessons & Resources » Why had international peace collapsed by 1939?

• Political Cartoon Interpretation
• Long-term consequences of the peace treaties
• Hitler's rise and plan
• Hitler's policies
• The foreign policies of Italy and Japan
• The foreign policies of Britain and France (Appeasement)
• German foreign policy
• The remilitarisation of the Rhineland
• The Sudetenland 1938
• Czechoslovakia, Poland and the end of appeasement
• The Nazi-Soviet Pact
• The end of appeasement and the outbreak of war