In March 1936, in response to the German remilitarization of the Rhineland, King had the Canadian High Commissioner in London inform the British government that if Britain went to war with Germany over the Rhineland issue that Canada would remain neutral.

He was involved in the German withdrawal from the League of Nations in 1933, the negotiations of the Anglo-German Naval Accord ( 1935 ) and the remilitarization of the Rhineland.

* The Nazi Party requisitions the dirigibles Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg to conduct leaflet-dropping propaganda flights over Germany to garner support for Hitlers planned remilitarization of the Rhineland.

Although the SFIO had opposed sports as a " bourgeois " activity of the " leisure class ", it changed attitude during the Popular Front first of all because its social reforms permitted to the workers ' to participate in such leisure activities, and also because of the increasing risks of a confrontation with Nazi Germany, in particular after the March 1936 remilitarization of the Rhineland, in contradiction with the 1925 Locarno Treaties which had been reaffirmed in 1935 by France, Great Britain and Italy allied in the Stresa Front.

* Piotr Stefan Wandycz The twilight of French eastern alliances, 1926 – 1936: French-Czechoslovak-Polish relations from Locarno to the remilitarization of the Rhineland, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Later, on the 22 February, Mussolini gave clearance for Hitler's remilitarization of the Rhineland, stating that Italy would not honor the obligations of the Locarno Treaty should Germany take such action.

The remains of anti-aircraft warfare barracks erected in 1938 after the remilitarization of the Rhineland during the Third Reich served as the university's first buildings and are still in use today.

She denounced British complacency in Hitler's remilitarization of the Rhineland, the Italian conquest of Abyssinia and about the Spanish Civil War.

Nazi Germany was by then well into her own revision of the Versailles Treaty, with her remilitarization of the Rhineland ( 7 March 1936 ) and Anschluss of Austria ( 12 March 1938 ).

Hillgruber argued that Gustav Stresemann was carrying out a " liberal-imperialist " policy in which he sought improved relations with France and by creating an unofficial alliance with the United States in return for which he wanted acquiescence in Germany " revising " her borders with Poland, the annexation of Austria, the remilitarization of the Rhineland, and the return of Eupen-Malmedy.

The remilitarization of the Rhineland was favoured by some of the local population, because of a resurgence of German nationalism and harboured bitterness over the Allied occupation of the Rhineland until 1930 ( Saarland until 1935 ).

In the course of the remilitarization of Nazi Germany, the Landwehr was reestablished on 21 May 1935 comprising all Germans liable for military service under the new law older than 35 years of age and younger than 45 years.

The Federal Republic was exporting arms to African dictatorships, which was seen as supporting the war in Southeast Asia and engineering the remilitarization of Germany with the U. S .- led entrenchment against the Warsaw Pact nations.

Evidently, opinions range from one extreme of pacifism, to the other extreme of nationalism and complete remilitarization.

During World War II, most Buddhist schools ( with the exception of the Sōka Gakkai ), strongly supported Japan's remilitarization.

There were Gaullist fears that the EDC threatened France's national sovereignty, constitutional concerns about the indivisibility of the French Republic, and fears about Germany's remilitarization.

Russia then aligned itself more closely with Prussia by approving the unification of Germany in exchange for a revision of the Treaty of Paris and the remilitarization of the Black Sea.

France could not act due to political instability at the time, and, since the remilitarization occurred at a weekend, the British Government could not find out or discuss actions to be taken until the following Monday.

As a result of this, the governments were inclined to see the remilitarization as a fait accompli.

As a result of the Treaty, Germany's territory was reduced by about 13 %, several million ethnic Germans came under foreign rule, even though they were the majority in many of those areas, the Rhineland was demilitarized and Allied troops occupied several areas.

In 1936 Germany remilitarized the industrial Rhineland ; the region had been ordered demilitarized by the Treaty of Versailles.

The Ruhr Red Army, or Rote Soldatenbund, took over much of the demilitarized Rhineland unopposed.

Following the First World War of the early 20th century, the western part of Rhineland was occupied by Entente forces, then demilitarized under the Treaty of Versailles.

In March 1921, French and Belgian troops occupied Duisburg, which under the Treaty of Versailles formed part of the demilitarized Rhineland.

* The German Rhineland was made a demilitarized zone after World War I by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.

Under the Versailles Settlement, the Rhineland was demilitarized.

Germany formally repudiated its Locarno undertakings by sending troops into the demilitarized Rhineland on 7 March 1936.

Hitler moved troops into the demilitarized Rhineland on March 7, 1936.

* Even shortly before on 8 December 1918 the Allied occupation of the Bosporus, the Dardanelles, the eastern coast of the Sea of Marmara, the islands of Imros, Lemnos, Samothrace and Tenedos and 15 km deep into eastern and the eastern shores ; entire area demilitarized ( Zone of the Straits ; complemented 16 March – 10 August 1920 as the allies occupy the Ottoman capital Istanbul ) was a military fact, in November 1918 a double post was created: until the termination of allied occupation on 22 October 1923, there were at all times one British Senior Allied High Commissioner and one ( junior ) Allied High Commissioner ( incumbents from France, thrice, Italy and the US, each twice ).

* 14 March 1920 Communists seize demilitarized Ruhr ; Dortmund, Remschied, Hagen, Mülheim, Düsseldorf ; 300 people killed ( mostly policemen ).

Throughout the remainder of the 1970s, Sadat developed strong relations with the Western powers, repealed Egypt's Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with the Soviet Union in March 1976, made peace with Israel in March 1979 following the Camp David Accords-where it was agreed that Israel would depart from the Sinai Peninsula in exchange for making the area a demilitarized zone and that Egypt would not seek claims to a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and West Bank in exchange for annual economic and military aid from the United States-and distanced Egypt from the Soviet Union.

Germany remained completely demilitarized and any plans for a German military were forbidden by Allied regulations.

In late July and August 1945 the Potsdam Conference finally disbanded, denazified and demilitarized the former Nazi German state and reversed all German annexations and occupied territories.

Although many demilitarized zones are also neutral territory, since neither side is allowed to control it even for non combat administration, there are cases where a zone remains demilitarized after an agreement awarding full control to one state, which relinquished the normal right to establish any military forces or installations there.

In accordance with the Pope's wishes, the Italian government also unilaterally declared Rome an Open City, i. e., a demilitarized zone, a declaration the Allies would refuse to recognize and the Germans to respect.

As part of the peace agreement, troops from both armies were to be demilitarized and then integrated.

Following World War I, the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres demilitarized the strait and made it an international territory under the control of the League of Nations.

The border was demilitarized after the war and, apart from minor raids, has remained peaceful.

After the eventual breakup of the peace negotiations, which had been stalled numerous times and finally ended due to a guerrilla kidnapping of a congressman and other political figures, the Caguán demilitarized zone was terminated by the Pastrana administration.

The UN established a temporary security zone consisting of a 25-kilometre demilitarized buffer zone within Eritrea, running along the length of the disputed border between the two states and patrolled by UN troops.

In December 2007, an estimated 4000 Eritrean troops remained in the ' demilitarized zone ' with a further 120, 000 along its side of the border.

* 1920 – Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.

The Egyptians agreed to keep the Sinai Peninsula demilitarized.

Land mines are currently used in large quantities mostly for this first purpose, thus their widespread use in the demilitarized zones ( DMZs ) of likely flashpoints such as Cyprus, Afghanistan and Korea.

The guerillas received support from Albanians in NATO-controlled Kosovo and ethnic Albanian guerrillas in the demilitarized zone between Kosovo and the rest of Serbia.

Both cities were to be maintained as neutral and demilitarized zones for the negotiations.

A 48-hour respite that had been previously agreed to with the rebel group was not respected as the government argued that it had already been granted during an earlier crisis in January, when most of the more prominent FARC-EP commanders had apparently left the demilitarized zone.

The group demanded a demilitarized zone including two towns ( Florida and Pradera ) in the strategic region of Valle del Cauca, where much of the current military action against them has taken place, plus this region is also an important way of transporting drugs to the Pacific coast.

In 2001, Human Rights Watch ( HRW ) denounced that the FARC-EP had abducted and executed civilians accused of supporting paramilitary groups in the demilitarized zone and elsewhere, without providing any legal defense mechanisms to the suspects and generally refusing to give any information to relatives of the victims.

Roughly four months later, the Federation-Cardassian borders were redefined, with the two sides buffered by a demilitarized zone.

According to the fictional storyline of the Star Trek universe, the Maquis were formed in the 24th Century after a peace treaty was enacted between the United Federation of Planets and the Cardassian Union, redesignating the demilitarized zone between the two powers, which resulted in the Federation ceding several of their colony worlds to the Cardassians.

** Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM inspectors to use its own aircraft to fly into Iraq, and begins military operations in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait, and the northern Iraqi no-fly zones.

Former KLA members quickly established bases in the demilitarized zone, and Serbian police had to stop patrolling the area to avoid being ambushed.

Seeing that the situation was getting out of control, NATO allowed the VJ to reclaim the demilitarized zone on May 24, 2001, and at the same time giving the UCPMB the opportunity to turn themselves over to Kosovo Force ( KFOR ), which promised to just take their weapons and note their names before releasing them.

The task of the 300 military observers was to monitor the demilitarized zone ( DMZ ) along the Iraq-Kuwait border and the Khawr ' Abd Allah waterway, deter border violations and report any hostile action.

The Israel-Syria Armistice Agreement provided for a demilitarized zone ( DMZ ) in the Hula Lake area at the foot of the Golan Heights, zone which encompassed the area of Palestine as defined in the League of Nations Mandate occupied by Syrian forces at the time of the armistice.