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| - While Adolf Hitler had risen to power in Germany in 1933, in part on promises of restoring the national honour, it wasn't until 1936 that Hitler began to act substantially. In March of that year, he remilitarised the Rhineland, in violation of the Locarno Treaties of October 1925. France and Britain made no effort to intervene. While President Joe Steele was very loud in condemning Hitler's move and France's failure to respond, Hitler faced no repercussions, save for the few barbs he shared with Steele in the month after the remilitarisation (both leaders shared a mutual loathing).
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| - While Adolf Hitler had risen to power in Germany in 1933, in part on promises of restoring the national honour, it wasn't until 1936 that Hitler began to act substantially. In March of that year, he remilitarised the Rhineland, in violation of the Locarno Treaties of October 1925. France and Britain made no effort to intervene. While President Joe Steele was very loud in condemning Hitler's move and France's failure to respond, Hitler faced no repercussions, save for the few barbs he shared with Steele in the month after the remilitarisation (both leaders shared a mutual loathing). The year 1937 saw Japan begin a war in China on 1937. The Spanish Civil War had become a proxy war between Adolf Hitler and Leon Trotsky. The year 1938 proved to be momentous. In March, Hitler ordered the annexation of Austria to Germany, and immediately began making claims on the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia. Steele and Trotsky hated each other at least as much as they each hated Hitler, but both were unified by their fear of what Hitler might do if left unchecked, exhorting Britain and France to fight. Instead, France and Britain brokered a deal in which the Sudetenland was granted to Germany in September 1938. Six months later, Germany's annexed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and created the independent Republic of Slovakia, which now positioned Germany to move on Poland. Hitler now turned his attention to the Polish Corridor. Leon Trotsky, realizing that France and Britain could not be counted on, sent his foreign commissar, Maxim Litvinov to Berlin to negotiate a non-aggression pact with Litvinov's German counter-part, Joachim von Ribbentrop. (Some found it ironic that the Jewish Trotsky had sent the Jewish Litvinov into the "world's capital of anti-Semitism.") Steele and his administration realized quickly that the U.S. was too far away to influence anything beyond publicly pleading with Britain and France to stand firm against Germany, while condemning both Germany and the Soviet Union, to no avail. Germany invaded Poland a week later, prompting France and Britain to declare war on Germany, setting off World War II in Europe. Britain and France did not attack Germany, however, leaving Poland to basically fight on its own. The Soviet Union attacked Poland from the east a few weeks after that. With no help coming, Poland surrendered. Upon Poland's capitulation, Hitler and Trotsky met at the new frontier. The United States did not enter the war. President Steele instead gave what came to be called the "Plague on Both Your Houses" speech, which promised that the U.S. would not enter into Europe's "latest stupid war".
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