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1. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs gave the Cabinet an account of the conversations he and the Lord Privy Seal had held with representatives of the French, Belgian and Italian Governments in Paris on the previous day.

Low's famous 'Stepping Stones to Glory' showed Hitler marching towards his goal ('Boss of the Universe') along a carpet laid across the backs of the 'spineless leaders of democracy'. The message of the source that Hitler is travelling down a 'road', and Low has even identified the first two steps correctly - 'Rearmament' and 'Rhineland'. But Low was able to do so because those were the two steps Hitler had already taken. He guesses Hitler's next step (Danzig) incorrectly, and the rest of the steps are marked with question marks. Low was claiming that Hitler was heading down a road to war and that everyone else as too scared or spineless to stand up to him.

Bruce Donald and Delfina Urso This source shows the Policy of Appeasement. It shows how Hitler was expanding his territory and nobody was trying to stop him.

This cartoon is from the London Evening Standar, a popular newspaper with a large readership in Britain. This source show the way in which Hitler toughly stepped though and mocked his rivals in order to achieve his goals. in the source we can see how Hitler gets higher each step, gaining power and defeating more people each time

"The forty-eight hours after the march into the Rhineland were the most nerve-racking in my life. If the French had then marched into the Rhineland we would have had to withdraw with our tails between our legs, for the military resources at our disposal would have been wholly inadequate for even a moderate resistance." Adolf Hitler speech after German forces get into the Rhineland, 1936.

"At that time we had no army worth mentioning .... If the French had taken any action we would have been easily defeated; Our resistance would have been over in a few days. And the Air Force we had then was ridiculous - a few junkers 52s from Lufthansa and not even enough bombs for them..." Adolf Hitler speech after German forces get into the Rhineland, 1936.

A British cartoon about the reoccupation of the Rhineland, 1936. "Pax Germanica" is Latin and means "Peace, German style".

Here it was situated the rhineland

"At that time we had no army worth mentioning .... If the French had taken any action we would have been easily defeated; Our resistance would have been over in a few days. And the Air Force we had then was ridiculous - a few junkers 52s from Lufthansa and not even enough bombs for them..." Hitler talking about the Remilitarization of The Rhineland

Photograph of German troops marching into the Rhineland, March 1936.

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