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Adolf Hitler, in Germany, soon began a massive rearmament campaign; the Holocaust. While,
France gave Italy a freehand in Ethiopia, which Italy had long wanted to colonially control.
Hoping to conquer Germany the French, Italians, and the British formed an alliance called the
Stresa Front, while in June 1935, Britain had also made an individual Naval agreement with
Germany, which also eased the restrictions posed earlier on Germany. The Russians were
concerned that the Germans would soon attack to conquer the Eastern Europe and hence they
soon wrote a pact to the French. The pact was to be approved by the League of Nations. The
United States then passed an act of Neutrality, while Ethiopia was invaded by Italy and
Germany was the only nation to support the attack. Because of this, Italy immediately dropped
its objection against Germany’s plans to attack Austria.
When a civil war started in Poland in 1939, Hitler and Mussolini waged a war against the Polish
and the Spanish republic, which were supported by the Soviet Russia. Germany attacked Poland
on 1st September on false pretext that Poland had attacked German territory.

Source:
http://www.researchomatic.com/world-war-1-and-world-war-2-71442.html

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