The remilitarisation of the Rhineland

In march 1936 Hitler took his first really big risk by moving troops into the Rhineland area f Germany in contravention of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. The image to the right shows German troops goose-stepping through the city of Cologne in March 1936.

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
• Anschluss with Austria in 1938
• The Sudetenland 1938
• Czechoslovakia, Poland and the end of appeasement
• The Nazi-Soviet Pact
• The end of appeasement and the outbreak of war