Rearmament in a sentence

German and Italian rearmament and conflicts in Afro-Eurasia Beginning in 1932, when he opposed those who advocated giving Germany the right to military parity with France, Churchill spoke often of the dangers of Germany's rearmament.

His thorough presentation of the case for rearmament in 1935, the son argues, defeated pacifism and secured a victory that allowed rearmament to move ahead.

Yet politicians are taking no chances and almost everywhere rearmament has become a top priority.

The expansion of the Navy as Germany began its rearmament program enabled him to return to sea, and there he immediately shone as a natural U-boat commander.

After Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, the Krupp works became the center for German rearmament.

Any effort to extend it was halted by the growing cost of the Korean War and rearmament.

Delays in rearmament were caused by slow decision-making. not by any political scheme to insure Baldwin's return to office in 1935.

Germany started to build destroyers again during the 1930s as part of Hitler's rearmament program.

However he became alarmed at Britain's lack of defence against air raids and German rearmament, saying it "would be a terrible thing, in fact, the beginning of the end".

In 1939 Germany took over the rest of Czechoslovakia and appeasement policies gave way to hurried rearmament as Hitler next turned his attention to Poland.

In the debate in the Commons on 12 November 1936, Churchill attacked the government on rearmament as being "decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

In the years that followed, Germany placed an emphasis on rearmament, as did Poland and other European powers.

I shall be told that that is quite impossible". citation Shortly after those comments, Adolf Hitler proclaimed that German rearmament offered no threat to world peace.

It argues that "Western powers" aided Nazi rearmament and aggression, including that American bankers and industrialists provided capital for the growth of German war industries, while deliberately encouraging Hitler to expand eastward.

Knowing that the world would see this step towards rearmament, Hitler reached an agreement with Britain to build a navy up to 35% of the size of the Royal Navy in surface vessels, but equal to the British in number of submarines.

Konstam, pp. 33–34 Naval rearmament In the late 1930s navies began to build capital ships again, and during this period a number of large commerce raiders and small, fast battleships were built that are sometimes referred to as battlecruisers.

No power on earth could have got rearmament without a general election except by a big split.

On 22 May 1935, the day after Hitler had made a speech claiming that German rearmament offered no threat to peace, Attlee asserted that Hitler's speech gave "a chance to call a halt in the armaments race".

On 5 March 1938, Prime Minister Kálmán Darányi announced a rearmament program (the so-called Győr Programme, named after the city where it was announced to the public).

Once German and Japanese rearmament became clear, the British and American navies consciously focused on building destroyers that were smaller but more numerous than those used by other nations.