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| Question | Answer |
| Date of | 1934 |
| Austrian Chancellor | Dolfuss (Assassinated by Austrian Nazis in an attempted coup) - July 1934 |
| Why Anschluss? | Part of Hitler’s Gross Deutschland’ Policy of uniting German speakers in one Reich. + he was Austrian too! Also overturning ‘hated’ Treaty of Versailles |
| Leader of Austrian Nazis | Arthur Seyss Inquart (Hitler had him appointed Austrian Chancellor in the 1938 Anschluss) |
| How / why it failed? | No support amongst the Austrians. Austrian military forces remained in Government control. Mussolini sent troops to the Brenner Pass (border) as a warning. |
| Dolfuss replacedment | Kurt von Schuschnigg |
| Anschluss - meaning | Uniting Germany and Austria into one Reich (Union) |
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