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| 1937, Nov. 24 |
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| Walther Funk replaced Schacht as minister of economics, Schacht remaining president of the Reichsbank. Schacht had done much to develop German trade through bartering agreements with the Balkan and Near Eastern countries. But his methods, however clever, were not in accord with the more extreme theories of Nazi circles. In Oct. 1936 the Four-Year Plan had been introduced and Goering had been made economic dictator. Funk's advent marked a further advance of the more extreme Nazi elements. | 1 |
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| 1938, Feb. 4 |
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| Reorganization of the military and diplomatic command. Hitler assumed the ministry of war, while Gen. Wilhelm Keitel became his representative at the supreme command and Gen. Heinrich von Brauchitsch became commander in chief of the army. In the foreign office the place of Constantin von Neurath was taken by Joachim von Ribbentrop. Definitive subordination of both the army and the foreign service to the Nazi Party. The new men were known to be exponents of a bolder, forward policy. | 2 |
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| March 12–13 |
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| GERMAN INVASION AND ANNEXATION OF AUSTRIA. Thereby over 6 million people were added to the Reich and the way paved for future expansion in the Danube Valley. | 3 |
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| May 19–20 |
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| The first Czech crisis arose after a Hitler speech promising protection to German minorities in Czechoslovakia. | 4 |
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| Sept. 12–29 |
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| The GREAT CZECHOSLOVAK CRISIS (See 1938, March–May), as a result of which Hitler annexed to Germany over 3 million people of the Sudeten region. | 5 |
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